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Thirty air corridors, counted four times a day since December. This is not world air traffic: it is what a public antenna sees within a fixed radius of each airport. The number matters less than the fact that it has been measuring itself for 286 days straight.
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The world in motion
Reading the data…
Where it looks
Dot size is the mean number of aircraft per capture. The radii are not equal —71 to 250 nautical miles depending on the airport— so two dots do not compare with each other; each one compares with itself over time.
Two hundred and eighty-six days, corridor by corridor
Each column is one day. Each row is drawn against its own scale, because Atlanta sees sixty times more aircraft than Johannesburg and on a shared scale twenty-eight rows would come out blank. Gaps are days without a capture, not days with zero aircraft.
The rhythm of the day
The four bands in which it is measured, in UTC. Here you can see that the planet is not awake all at once: New York's empty band is the middle of the night in New York.
| Corridor | Mean | Min · Max | Days | UTC rhythm |
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What this does not say
- It is not how many aircraft there are. It is how many a public antenna sees within a fixed radius. An aircraft with its transponder off does not exist for this measurement.
- Rows do not compare with each other. Each airport has its own radius and its own scale; what compares is each one with itself.
- The gaps have a known cause. Most come from a 2026 fault in which the capture died halfway, documented day by day.
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