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Airline Report: 2007 US Air Delays Worst Ever

7/10/2007 at 9:53 AM
Tags: Airline Delays, Airline Hell, Hawaiian Airlines, US Airways (all tags)

Money exchanged for goods and services is an established custom in these United States. When we go to a restaurant, for example, we expect to order, receive, consume, and pay for a meal in a timely fashion. Yet airlines seem to think, more and more, that following through on a pre-paid service is optional. A recent CNN story reports that flight delays in 2007 are the worst on record. The article states:

Of the roughly three million flights between January and May, about 73 .6 percent were on time, the government reported, down from 77.4 percent last year. That marks the lowest on-time percentage for the same period since the government began tracking the numbers in 1995.

Part of those delays were due to a sharp increase in the number of canceled flights. During that period, cancellations soared 79 percent, to 75,925, from the same period a year ago.

Hawaiian Airlines did the best job of getting its customers to their destination on time, while US Airways fared the worst. From experience, we think flying US Air is about as masochistic as attending Live Earth in South Africa.

[Photo Credit: Davity Dave]