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MUCflights (version 0.0-3)

airports: Airports of the World (from http://www.OpenFlights.org)

Description

Geographical information on (almost) all commercial airports in the world.

Usage

data(airports)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 6344 observations on the following 11 variables.
AirportID
Unique OpenFlights identifier for this airport.
Name
Name of airport. May or may not contain the City name.
City
Main city served by airport. May be spelled differently from Name.
Country
Country or territory where airport is located.
IATA
3-letter FAA code, for airports located in Country "United States of America". 3-letter IATA code, for all other airports.
ICAO
4-letter ICAO code.
Latitude
Decimal degrees, usually to six significant digits. Negative is South, positive is North.
Longitude
Decimal degrees, usually to six significant digits. Negative is West, positive is East.
Altitude
Altitude of the airport in feet.
Timezone
Hours offset from UTC. Fractional hours are expressed as decimals, eg. India is 5.5.
DST
Daylight savings time. One of E (Europe), A (US/Canada), S (South America), O (Australia), Z (New Zealand), N (None) or U (Unknown).

Details

A data frame containing information on commercial airports as provided by http://www.OpenFlights.org.

Examples

Run this code
  
  data("airports", package = "MUCflights")
  head(airports)

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