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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. airlines reported declining rates of on-time flights and increasing rates of mishandled luggage in 2007, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports.
With 20 airlines contributing data, the bureau reported an on-time arrival rate of 73.4 percent in 2007, down from a rate of 75.4 percent in 2006.
At the same time, luggage mishaps increased from a rate of 6.73 reports of mishandled luggage per 1,000 passengers in 2006 to a rate of 7.03 mishandled cases per 1,000 passengers in 2007.
Carriers reporting claimed an on-time performance rate of 64.3 in December 2007, compared with an 80 percent on-time rate in November 2007.
Bumping passengers off of a flight, usually done because a flight is overbooked, also increased in 2007. Of the airlines reporting, the bumping rate of 1 per 10,000 passengers in 2006 rose to 1.12 per 10,000 passengers in 2007.
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