A project to use historical flight data or flight schedule data to uncover airline industry evolution and competitive landscape changes at three levels: airport, carrier and route. Different packages and techniques are used to manage and analyze the data and to visualize the trends and to highlight facts; a shiny dashboard app is developed to allow interactive slice and dice queries. This is an example to use R to swiftly process large datasets, to draw unusual insights, and to build product prototypes for the travel industry.