TY - JOUR AU - Byrne, Isaac AU - Kanaoka, Yuichiro AU - Pollack, Nicole Elizabeth AU - Rhee, Ho June AU - Sommers, Paul Martin PY - 2019/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Analysis of Airport Delays Across the United States, 2012-2018 JF - Journal of Student Research JA - J Stud Res VL - 8 IS - 2 SE - DO - 10.47611/jsr.v8i2.775 UR - https://www.jsr.org/index.php/path/article/view/775 SP - AB - <p>The authors examine the two busiest airports (based on the annual number of flight departures) in each state (including the District of Columbia) in 2012, 2016, 2017, and 2018.&nbsp; The average delay is longest among states in the Northeast and shortest among states in the West in each of the four years.&nbsp; Between 2012 and 2016, the average delay increased in all four Census regions, but significantly in only the Midwest and West. The year-over-year change in the average delay between 2016 and 2018 did <em>not </em>significantly increase at the busiest airports in states in either the West or, surprisingly, the most densely populated Census region, the Northeast.</p> ER -