MITRE Air Traffic Update: Future Flight Schedules, Revisited

By Wayne Cooper, Jr. , Joseph Hollenberg , Mike Robinson , Michael Wells

Last year, MITRE observed that airline schedules published three months before a flight tended to be optimistic, only to be substantially reduced as the departure date drew closer. Here, we check to see if this is still the case.

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Much has changed in the last 6 to 8 months, and more people in the U.S. are starting to fly again. We investigate whether domestic airline scheduling practices have changed as a result, as well as trends for individual airports.