late flights

The U.S. Department of Transportation released its monthly Air Travel Consumer Report yesterday, which covers on-time, lost baggage and complaint data for January 2009. According to the DOT, things got better for travelers. On-time performance inched up a bit, fewer reports of lost baggage were filed and fewer of us found things to complain about.

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Charlie LeochaIn the midst of the financial meltdown that has frozen credit lines, slowed movement of capital through the system, brought massive financial and insurance firms to their knees and prompted the largest infusion of government action since the New Deal, journalists are asking themselves, “How could we have been so blindsided?” For the coming national air traffic meltdown, we’ll say in advance: “We told you so.”

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Another month, another report from the US Department of Transportation. I know I’m weird, but I always enjoy digging through these to see what sort of nuggets I can find.

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