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Here’s a small applet I created in Processing which shows a visualisation of Qantas flights for a 24 hour period on the 11 March 2008. The data is scraped directly from the Qantas timetables on their web site and saved into a text file. The applet then loads to text file and interprets airport destinations and departures as cartesian coordinates that correspond with the relative position of the airports. These do not represent the actual flight paths of the aircraft (I don’t have that data) - instead it assumes a straight line of flight between airports. For this scale it’s probably close enough.

Only flights between major airports are plotted - there’s no data here for the myriad regional flights that happen every day, and there’s no international flights - it’s all domestic Qantas flights only. Some time in the future I’ll probably expand this to plot in real time over a map with more flight data.