Commercial Aircraft Base Location Improvements

Over the past 6 months, the data teams have been working hard to improve the coverage, accuracy and currency of our commercial aircraft base location data.

Cirium defines a Base as the operational location that the aircraft arrives / departs from most often, whilst also factoring in consistent overnight stops using flight activity data.

Our Data Research and Data Science Teams have been able to utilise internal tracking data to provide Base Location Data for over 32,000 commercial aircraft ( more than 90% of the fleet), with updates at least once per week to refresh the data with the latest information.

The fields can be added as columns into the Detail aircraft grid:

Some examples below:

A350 in service fleet grouped by Base Location:

Jet2 fleet grouped by Location