New! Airline will-your-flight-be-delayed prediction service
DelayCast is a new flight data aggregator that goes one step beyond crunching numbers. It predicts the likelihood that the flight you book will find itself delayed.
From their site:
Use our on-time prediction engine to help you book your flights. We’ve built mathematical models of the U.S. air transportation system to predict delays and cancellations. If you need to make that meeting on time or are afraid of missing a connection, don’t book until you check out the predictions here!
The cool part about the numbers game they’re playing is it’s easy to figure out if they were right or not. According to their FAQ, “looking across all of our delay duration predictions, month after month, we are within 15 minutes 80 – 90% of the time. Of course that varies by airport.”
Here are a few examples of the different data you can get from their site:
- The day-of-the-week “Delay Index” from the Denver International Airport
- The time-of-day “Delay Index” for the Chicago O’Hare airport (no surprise: it’s best to depart between midnight and 6 a.m.)
Right now you have to have the airport codes of the airports you’re travelling in memorized (if you need help with that, I copied and pasted all the U.S. Airport codes from the department of transportation’s website in a blog post here).
» Check out the Delaycast website here.
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