Thursday, August 23, 2012

Hurricanes and airplanes

As hurricane season arrives, it is interesting to see the impact these storms have on airline volumes and routes.  Here is a video showing air traffic as Hurricane Katrina came through:

You can find other similar ones here.

2 comments:

Hilary Kunizaki said...

That's really fascinating! I had to check to see if the timer on the side was moving at a consistant speed as the airline traffic slowed.

wrinkledman said...

Nope, here:
http://maps.unomaha.edu/animatedflightatlas/FlightTrafficAnimation.html