Flight delays are a major concern for both travelers and airlines, with significant financial and reputational consequences. Accurately predicting flight delays is crucial for enhancing customer satisfaction and airline revenues. In this paper, we leverage the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to build a framework for accurately predicting flight delays. To achieve this, we collected flight information from September 2017 to April 2023, along with weather data, and performed extensive feature engineering to extract informative features to train our model. We conduct a comparative analysis of various popular machine learning architectures with distinctive characteristics, aiming to determine their efficacy in achieving optimal accuracy on our newly proposed dataset. Based on our evaluation of various architectures, our findings demonstrate that CatBoost outperformed the others by achieving the highest test accuracy and the lowest error rate in the challenging use case of Saudi Arabia. Moreover, to simulate real-world scenarios, our framework evaluates the best-performing model that has been selected for deployment in a web application, which provides users with the ability to accurately forecast flight delays and offers a user-friendly dashboard with valuable insights and analysis capabilities.


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    Title :

    Predicting Flight Delays with Machine Learning: A Case Study from Saudi Arabian Airlines


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    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown