Flight Has Been Delayed

Last week, more negative news out of Capitol Hill related to commercial air travel and the costs of delays in a report entitled “Your Flight Has Been Delayed Again” and released by the Joint Economic Committee (”JEC”) Majority Staff chaired by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on May 22. At the beginning of the year, I discussed other statistics released by the DOT  related to the costs of delays. According to the Schumer report, the JEC “used U.S. Department of Transportation data to analyze more than 10 million individual U.S. domestic scheduled flights in 2007.These passenger flights were operated by more than 400 different carriers – both national and regional – and traveled through more than 1,100 airports.” The statistics released in the Schumer report are mind numbing. Here are some of them (mostly quoted directly from the Report.