If flying wasn't expensive enough, travelers are now having to deal with more flight delays (Flight delays to get worse as economy improves).
According to a recent study, delays have been steadily increasing over the last 20 years. The average length of delays has gone up over 15 minutes and the number of flights that arrived 2 hours later than scheduled has more than doubled (10.1%) since 1990 (4.3%). Numerous major cities topped the list in worse-than average on-time percentages for arrivals and departures with the worst being New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, and San Francisco. It is worth noting that these airports are some of the busiest and also big international airports. And weather can also play a factor. However, other cities did much better than average for arrivals and departures like Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Detroit, and Washington. Ironically, some of those are bad weather cities as well. The important to budget travel is to plan in front. When it happens to family trips, globetrotting, well-deserved trips and/or going to see new destinations we have never been before, the truth of cost and budgeting is always in the back of our minds. Considering and expending our travel budget properly is a concern for most families. Lowering expending and fees, while still enjoying your vacation to its fullest, is the key to confirmed success and fiscal liability. Your pocketbook and family will thank you! The thinking behind saving money while travelling is simple: Even if your personal funds is highly small, you can still take a break and enjoy life! Simply put, life is just too short to never step out of the door or departing the homestead! Also keeping in mind that while traveling, regardless of whether on a resources or not, even the smallest of things can all add op to a large vacation or travel costs!. The article goes on to talk about ways to avoid delays and what ideas are being looked into to make travel better.
Unfortunately, the delays are expected to get worse as the economy gets better. Demand for air travel is down right now but as demand for travel goes back up, on time performance is expected to get worse. Even weather may play more of a factor as El Nino may disrupt travel this winter. This is not good news for travelers. Not only are we paying more fees and prices becoming more expensive, flying is also costing us time with these delays on the rise. Less flights to choose from and paying more for basic airline services we had come to expect in the past (food, pillows, blankets, and checking luggage) is costing us even more. Maybe all this data means there should be even more of a push for a passenger's Bill of Rights. However, even implementing that may strap airlines even more meaning more fees are passed on to travelers.
Flight delays aren't just an inconvenience issue. It costs us time and in travel, that could mean hours or days off of our trips. Unfortunately, things aren't looking to improve any time soon. With flying costing us time and money, we need to find ways where we can save money (Airline fees up, pack light to save money). I don't have any answers but this is frustrating for all of us. Maybe there needs to be some major changes to the airline system. Delays, higher costs, and getting less for what we paid is unfortunately the norm for airline passengers.
Update - check outSacramento airport's national ranking in on-time performance!
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