Flight Delay Prediction

THE CHALLENGE: Clear for Take Off
Aeronautics

To comply with security and airline protocol, air travelers should arrive at the airport well in advance of their flight. Without realizing the probability of adverse conditions at the time of the scheduled departure, they may experience inconvenient delays at the airport. Delays can be short and relatively easy to manage, or they can cause long hours of waiting in crowded airports. Flight delays can even cause forced overnight stays at local hotels or inside the terminal. Travelers could benefit from knowing the likelihood of a delay as it could help them prepare for the wait time. Can an app be developed that predicts the impact of weather on airplane departure times?

Explanation

This mobile first web app predicts the flight delay information for various locations, time and travel dates as input provided by the user.

These days, weather keeps changing time and again, because of which flight are delayed without the prior information to the passsengers. Passengers reach to the airport in scheduled time but they will be totally unaware about the time that they may be delayed due to the varying weather conditions.

Sometimes,upon reaching the airport passengers need to wait couple of hours or more for their flight to take off.

So, the possible solution for this might be our web app that can be accessed by any people sitting in any corner of the world having access to the internet, and they provide the few required inputs then rest is boom! They can get the real time weather based flight delay information.

The result will be in percentage meaning the chances of flight delay happening, the more the percentage the more the waiting time. And also possible awating time is also predicted. They can use this information to go to airport.


Resources Used
  1. Ruby on Rails
  2. HTML/CSS
  3. Bootstap
  4. http://www.worldweatheronline.com/
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