Flight statistics based on FIR/UIR
Usage
Click on any airspace (FIR/UIR) on the map to display the respective development of the
number of airline flights during the COVID-19 pandemic. You may select multiple airspaces
at the same time. Clicking a second time on the same airspace deselects
it. Switching between FIRs and UIRs on the map is done via the legend.
The view can be toggled between absolute numbers and a percentage
related to the average number of flights in the first ten days of the
year 2020.
Content
Some regions don't discriminate between FIR and UIR or
have been simplified due to a lack of reliable openly available shape
files and to save computation power in data processing.
Aircraft position data was consumed as state vectors from the
OpenSky Network API
as well as from the
OpenSky Network historical database
at intervals between 10 seconds and 5 minutes.
State vectors with incomplete positional information or on_ground state
were ignored.
This statistics is focused on airline flights and should ignore general
aviation. Only callsigns matching the following regular expression have
been processed:
^([A-Z]{3})[0-9](([0-9]{0,3})|([0-9]{0,2})([A-Z])|([0-9]?)([A-Z]{2}))$
World wide statistics
The flight statistics is based on
OpenSky Network
data and was processed as described above.
For simplicity, the COVID-19 related data is shown for the whole
world only. Much more information can be found at the source of the
dataset:
Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell
(2020) - "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)"