Complaints, tardiness on the rise for air travelers


ASSOCIATED PRESS: Researchers say air travel is getting worse.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS: Researchers say air travel is getting worse.

More flights are late, more bags are getting lost, and customers are lodging more complaints about U.S. airlines, government data shows. Dean Headley, a marketing professor at Wichita State and one of the co-authors of the annual report being released Monday, said passengers already know that air travel is getting worse. “We just got the numbers to prove it.”

For the third straight year, Virgin America led the rankings. The niche airline with a limited route network was followed by Hawaiian Airlines and Delta Air Lines.

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