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Airline delays are down, on-time arrival is up says DOT
Tarmac delays are down, says the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
In 2012, there were 42 tarmac domestic flight delays of longer than three hours, down 50 from 2011.
The reason for the improvements may not all be altruistic. As of April 2010, airlines have been banned from keeping passengers on planes parked on the tarmac for more than three hours on domestic flights without giving passengers the option to disembark. Airlines that violate the law can end up shelling out over $27,000 per passenger.
The report also says that mishandled baggage reports are down to 3.09 per 1,000 passengers, the lowest rate of mishandled baggage for a year since the data was first reported in September 1987.
It also cited the third highest annual on-time arrival rate (81.85% in 2012) in the 18 years the DOT has been collecting comparable data.
The highest on-time arrival rate was 82.14% in 2002, with the lowest being 1.24% in 2002.
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