FlightForecast: A Comparative Analysis of Stack LSTM and Vanilla LSTM Models for Flight Prediction

Abstract

The Coronavirus was first reported in China in the city of Wuhan in December 2019, after a couple of months, it was widespread around the world. The whole world was in a state of lockdown. This hazardous disease affects the normal daily life of every individual and the tourism industry, especially the airline business was at a greater loss. Considering the airline business, this study contains data on commercial flights from 2019 to 2020. The conducted research analyzed the rise and fall of different flights in the lockdown period. The research is based on the variants of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) such as standard Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and stack LSTM. The comparative research shows that the prediction of the stack LSTM model is better than the standard RNN keeping view of taking a considerable amount of time to train.