Aviation Trends#
Last Updated: April 26th 2026
This notebook analyses daily aviation data to and from - Dubai, Doha, Amman, Cairo, Casablanca, Riyadh, Jeddah and Abu Dhabi. The main analyses involves daily and weekly changes in flights departed and arrived. Additionally, we look at the destinations where there were the most number of flights changes.
Data#
The dataset used for this update is from Aviation Stack.This data is purchased through their API subscription. The data is being validated for Dubai against OAG aggregated dataset from April 2025-June 2025.
Define a function to get a range of dates for the desirable date range
Arrival Trends in Major Airports in MENAAP#
Data is available from 2025-04-23 to 2026-04-26
Flight Status Legend#
Scheduled: A flight that we have a schedule or flight plan for that hasn’t departed or has been canceled.
Active: A flight that either left the gate or the runway and is on its way to its destination.
Landed or Arrived: A flight that landed on the runway or arrived at the gate at the destination.
Canceled: A flight that one or more data sources have indicated is canceled.
Redirected: The flight is being redirected to another airport.
Diverted: A flight that has landed or arrived at the gate of an airport where it wasn’t scheduled to arrive.
Unknown: We were unable to detect the final arrival status.