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Department of Transportation (DOT) has been releasing a monthly report on an Air Travel Consumer issues and rating of the air carriers based on specific information gathered directly from air carriers and from various authentic sources.
Report issued for the moth of June contains various points which are appended below for the knowledge of our reader and travel industry professionals.
According to this report the ratio of on-time flights were decreased and found lower than the same month last year.
An other subsidiary of this department is Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), which acts as a part of DOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), also disclosed various facts including 18 carriers reported to be showing on-time performance.
Their overall on-time arrival frequency was around 79.
9 percent in the last month.
Actually flights services punctuality and performance is calculated by their scheduled flights and on-time departures and arrivals.
The largest airlines had the highest rate of on-time flights during the last month which was counted to 80.
5 percent.
The report also dealt with Complaints received against Air services from various people, organizations and groups.
The Department received a total of 801 complaints against airlines.
This report is issued not only for the sake of information, evaluation of performance and for the record but also to motivate air services to better their performance and create and environment of competition.
The monthly report includes an authentic data on various aspects of air carriers including delay in scheduled flight, their cancellations and reasons to all other relevant loopholes.
It also provides information on airline bumping, mishandling of baggage, any complaints in consumer service, disability and discrimination complaints filed against or to the authorities.