Considering Airport Planners’ Preferences and Imbalanced Datasets when Predicting Flight Delays and Cancellations

A key part of efficient airport operational planning is to have insight into potential flight delays and cancellations. For airport planners, it is important to obtain flight delay or cancellation predictions with a high degree of certainty, i.e. a high precision. This allows planners to make sound decisions based on these predictions. To obtain...

A systematic approach to deal with highly imbalanced data when predicting flight cancellations and delays

As on-time performance is one of the main contributors to success in the world of commercial aviation, predictions on flight delays and cancellations can significantly improve operational efficiency and thus quality of service. Since flight delays and cancellations are occasional and infrequent events, operational on-time performance data is...