The Global Aviation Dashboard - developed by a team in the World Bank's Markets, Competition, and Technology unit – visualizes aggregated data on commercial flight movements around the world. The dashboard is powered by a unique dataset that draws on information supplied by flightradar24, ch-aviation, and various other sources. In addition to flight movements, the dashboard aggregates data on available seats (computed with information on the configuration of individual aircraft) and available seat kilometers (ASKs), which is the multiple of the length of the corresponding flights and the number of seats on the respective aircraft.
Features of the database include: (i) an animated three-dimensional globe visualizing weekly flight movements between countries or airports around the world between January 1, 2020 and the current week; (ii) a 'timeline' tool that charts the levels and composition of and changes in flight volume, seat volume, and ASKs along domestic, intra-regional, and/or inter-regional routes for different airports, countries, regions; (iii) a 'maps' tool that produces two-dimensional maps of weekly or daily passenger and/or cargo flight movements along domestic, intra-regional, and/or inter-regional routes between different countries or airports or by different airlines; (iii) a 'ranking' tool that charts changes in the relative volume, week-on-week change, and year-on-year change in flights, seats, and ASKs hosted by different countries, airports, and airlines; and (iv) a 'table' tool that compiles statistics on changes in flights, seats, and ASKs for each week or month from the beginning of the year until now.