R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Airline

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Airline data set which pertains to Cost for U.S. Airlines . The Airline data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Airline data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Airline"). This will load the data into a variable called Airline. If R says the Airline data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Airline R data set. The size of this file is about 3,308 bytes.

Cost for U.S. Airlines

Description

a panel of 6 observations from 1970 to 1984

number of observations : 90

observation : production units

country : United States

Usage

data(Airline)

Format

A dataframe containing :

airline: airline
year: year
cost: total cost, in \$1,000
output: output, in revenue passenger miles, index number
pf: fuel price
lf: load factor, the average capacity utilization of the fleet

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html, Table F7.1.

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