It would be simple to presume that airline companies would spare no cost to guarantee that guests’ baggage fulfills them at their location, thinking about how rewarding the connected charges are. Airlines internationally made more than $29 billion in examined bag costs in 2022. Regular leaflets are well conscious that bags can be lost or harmed while in a provider’s custody.
The numbers are rather incredible. Every U.S. airline company with more than 0.5 percent of overall domestic income is asked for to report its stats regular monthly to the Department of TransportationFrom that information, 2,801,968 bags were reported mishandled in 2023. Mishandled is a catch-all synonym for lost, harmed, postponed, and/or pilfered.
The USDOT utilizes the variety of bags mishandled per 100 bags enplaned as the step to compare airline companies relatively. I’ll utilize the initialism ‘BMPH’ to prevent continuously utilizing ‘bags mishandled per hundred.’ 0.58 BMPH is the nationwide average with 485,919,932 bags being enplaned in 2023. Here’s how the figures break down on an airline-by-airline basis.
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Allegiant Air shown to be the most skilled airline company in getting bags to their location in 2015. The Nevada-based provider mishandled just 10,590 bags in 2023. The lower rate may be down to the airline companies’ smaller sized size.
Southwest Airlines invested the majority of 2023 answering for its holiday disaster in December 2022. The low-priced provider ranked ninth after ranking 5th worst in 2022. Did Southwest enhance on its own, or did the record $140 million great and Congressional questions function as support?
Delta Air Lines stayed a strong 8th location in the rankings. It’s clear that the Atlanta-based airline company wants to put the effort in after it flew an airplane filled with absolutely nothing however lost baggage throughout the Atlantic Ocean in 2022.
Hawaiian Airlines slipped into seventh location in 2023 after ending up in ninth location the previous year. This will likely be the last year that Hawaiian appears on this list, as Alaska Air Group acquired the provider for $1.9 billion in December 2023.
Spirit Airlines didn’t fare far better than JetBlue in 2023. Its organizational problems extended beyond mishandling bags as a technical concern affecting the Spirit site and mobile app postponed 90 percent of its flights on a single day last August.
I’m not amazed to see United Airlines here. CEO Scott Kirby blamed the FAA for his airline companies’ cancellations and just assured to keep travelers safe in the wake of several prominent mechanical failures, generally with Boeing 777 airplane. The string of occurrences occurred a year after United was captured apparently avoiding pre-flight look at over 100,000 Boeing 777 flights.
Okay, the DOT’s data do include some excellent news. The nationwide average of 0.58 BMPH pointed out earlier is an enhancement over 2022’s average of 0.64 BMPH. In raw numbers, over 185,000 less bags were mishandled. Advantages occur when regulators hold airline companies responsible for how they treat their guests.