DOT Operations Report for June
Just cruising through the DOT June Air Travel Consumer Report for this week's issue of PBB. Short and sweet? They were pretty fugly.
29% of all flights in the U.S. were late in June, lost baggage reports were up, passenger complaints were up, and more flights were cancelled in June than last June. Or this last May, for that matter.
Here's the link to the summary page of the results on the DOT site.
While DOT operating numbers for American and American Eagle both have not been anything to write home about the last couple of months, June set a new low for both airlines.
American saw only 57.9% of its flights on-time while American Eagle had only 60.5% flights report on-time.
In all fairness, remember that Dallas, American's hub, was underwater for much of June.
We'll see how both airlines do in July.
Meanwhile, while Northwest took all the "flights cancelled" headlines in June -- Mesa Air Group actually cancelled more flights in June than any other airline. Mesa cancelled 6.4% of its flights. Northwest cancelled 5.3% of its flights.