Your government at work: More flight-delay data coming
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a final rule requiring airlines to report more data about on-the-ground flight delays. This is an outgrowth of the long tarmac delays and strandings in the winter of 2006-2007. As it turns out, this last winter saw few similar, widely publicized delays, or if they happened the media didn't turn them into national news. The reports were down, probably, for at least two reasons: less severe winter weather and the airlines improved their performance in hopes of avoiding any more news stories. The new reporting requirements for airlines start in October. You can read details of the rule --- many of them -- on the DOT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics Web site at this link.

