Critical Review on the FiveThirtyEight article on the Best and Worst Airlines

The article " The Best And Worst Airlines " uses innovative methods to rate the various airline providers and the airports based on delays and cancellation. It distinguishes itself from the statistics reported by the government in the fact that, it also accounts for certain key offsets. The airlines pad additional time in their schedules to account for unseen delays. The government statistics uses the deviation from the scheduled time reported by the airlines for computing the average delays. On the other hand, this article uses a different baseline, which it claims to be fairer. The article measures average travel time compared to other airlines flying the same route. This article falls into the category of " Data Journalism " as defined in Coddington's paper. The main theme of the article is to report about the performance of various airlines supported by data