Flight Delay Causes at Selected Visegrad Group International Airports

Martina Zámková, Luboš Střelec, Martin Prokop and Radek Stolín
Additional contact information
Martina Zámková: College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Czech Republic
Martin Prokop: College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Czech Republic
Radek Stolín: College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Czech Republic

European Journal of Business Science and Technology, 2021, vol. 7, issue 1, 91-108

Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse the flight delay causes at base airports (Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Budapest, Bratislava, Katowice, and Warsaw), with a special focus on a selected airline company operating in the central European region. To process the data, methods of multivariable statistics, namely tests of independence in contingency tables, the Kruskal-Wallis testing, cluster analysis, and correspondence analysis were used. Apparently, both charter and scheduled flights have the same percentage of delayed flights, delays occur most frequently in June, and Boeing 737-800 reported delays more frequently than Airbus A320. The research has shown that the highest number of delayed flights occurs in Budapest, the lowest number in Katowice. During the night, short delays occur most often, long delays most frequently arise in the evening. The most common cause for longer delays is technical maintenance or an aircraft defect and previously delayed flights. The flight dispatch by supplier companies is the source accounting only for rather short delays. Overall, the delayed flights frequency increases with the size of the city and the airport.

Keywords: correspondence analysis; delay causes; international airports; Pearson'; s chi-squared test; dendrogram; Kruskal-Wallis test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://ejobsat.cz/doi/10.11118/ejobsat.2021.003.html (text/html)
http://ejobsat.cz/doi/10.11118/ejobsat.2021.003.pdf (application/pdf)
free of charge

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:men:journl:v:7:y:2021:i:1:p:91-108

DOI: 10.11118/ejobsat.2021.003

Access Statistics for this article

European Journal of Business Science and Technology is currently edited by Svatopluk Kapounek

More articles in European Journal of Business Science and Technology from Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ivo Andrle ().