Data Snapshot #14 - Measuring horizontal flight efficiency

EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot looks at horizontal en-route flight efficiency - and why the shortest route is not necessarily the most fuel efficient one.

Read the article Published July 13, 2021

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API name: data-snapshot-14

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curl 'https://polaris.goens.dev/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=data-snapshot-14&limit=5'

Python

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/data-snapshot-14?format=csv')

R

df <- read.csv('https://polaris.goens.dev/datastore/dump/data-snapshot-14?format=csv')

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Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Unit. Data Snapshot #14 - Measuring horizontal flight efficiency. https://polaris.goens.dev/dataset/data-snapshot-14

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aviation.intelligence@eurocontrol.int

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Notes from the source

  • Data snaphot 14: Horizontal flight efficiency - why the great circle distance is relevant - but not necessarily the most fuel efficient route aviation.intelligence@eurocontrol.int

Additional Info

Field Value
Update frequency One-off
Time resolution
Data from 2016-01-01
Data to 2021-12-31
Data description https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication/eurocontrol-data-snapshot-14-horizontal-flight-efficiency
Methodology
Source page https://ansperformance.eu/publications/ectl/datasnap/