Your government at work: More flight-delay data coming (Winging It)

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.

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Alex Wong:

Love reading your blog. I'm not a full winging warrior but I've been doing a fair amount of flying (I only travel back and forth
to the west coast once every 6 to 8 weeks). Your short blips let me read articles I wouldn't have navigated to on my own.

I'm typing this from San Jose. I flew out on Frontier on Monday (hadn't used them in a couple of years) and while the flying was great, my bag didn't arrive the same time I did. They don't have enough personnel in San Jose or Philadelphia to handle the number of fliers using them. My bag did catch up with me Monday night.

Posted by Alex Wong | May 16, 2008 8:05 PM

Posted on May 16, 2008 20:05

YHS:

The only thing the airlines can do is stretch out the times of the departure and arrivals of the flights to take into account the poor service at PHL.

Posted by YHS | May 17, 2008 10:16 AM

Posted on May 17, 2008 10:16

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