Articles tagged “flight delays”

Outside of its main international hubs, Australia’s airports are inadequately equipped to take on a rising number of international visitors. Tourism growth, however, isn’t a bad problem to have.

FAA budget cut confusion continues with lawmakers pressing the agency to use the $253 million in last-minute funding to prevent 149 tower closures, a move that the FAA is reviewing this week.

Politicians couldn’t bear the thought of their own flights getting delayed during next week’s recess, but we still have to ask why go through the pain of flight delays, job furloughs, and political jarring just to reallocate the appropriate funds one week later?

Despite airline deregulation, these furloughs highlight the industry’s, sometimes beneficial and other times detrimental, continuing dependency on U.S. regulation and lawmakers.

After today, the first day where the delays were felt deeply across key domestic hubs, DoT may have to suspend these rules temporarily, but here's hoping it does it with some riders to protect consumer rights.

The precise cause of the problems hasn't been articulated, but American obviously needs to get this fixed promptly. This is potentially inconveniencing thousands of travelers, and will cost the airline in dollars and goodwill.

Hawaiian will continue to dominate the top spot since weather is the main cause delayed arrivals and departures. Still, it’s up to the airline to anticipate and adjust operations accordingly.

Hey, a Big Data approach to the flight delay problem could provide big savings in costs and time to airlines and their passengers.

What appears to be a consumer victory could actually backfire if smaller carriers refuse certain connections or schedule longer connection wait times to avoid the hefty pay out.