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October 3, 2008

Flight Stats: On-Time Performance Improves, Bag Losses Worsen

Filed under: Airlines, Delays, Bags — Rick Seaney @ 12:43 pm

Been perusing the latest statistics from the Dept. of Transportation - for August - and overall airline on-time rates are up:

  • Aug. 08 - 78.4 %
  • Jul. 08 — 75.7%
  • Aug. 07 — 71.7 %

For you scorekeepers out their, Hawaiian Airlines had the best on-time arrival rate, and JetBlue had the worst. Remember, that’s just for the month of August.

Bad news: The rate of mishandled baggage even with all the flight cutbacks is also up compared to the month earlier - okay, it’s up slightly (down year over year)

But since many of us now pay bag fees, I think that any additional “mishandling” is just not right.
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1 Comment »

  1. A good set of recommendations for the airline industry- have a read. Well worth it.

    http://thinkforamoment.typepad.com/think_for_a_moment/2008/10/an-open-letter-to-the-airline-industry-leadership.html

    Comment by James R — October 5, 2008 @ 10:24 am

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