Over recent years, summer delays have been creeping up. Even the best-performing airline, Delta, saw delays on a fifth of its flights. The question is: Does...
It’s been a busy summer for air travel—and delays. Pandemic 2020 excepted, summer flight delays have been ticking up in recent years. Between this May 1 and Aug. 29, some 24% of flights to, from, or within the U.S. were delayed, says flight-tracker FlightAware. The average delay: 55 minutes, up from 52 minutes in 2022. A “delayed” flight misses its scheduled arrival by 15 minutes or more.
Trailing the pack, Frontier Group saw 35% of flights delayed, JetBlue Airways 33%, and Spirit Airlines 32%. Companies 3M agreed to a $6 billion settlement with 250,000 veterans, who said the company’s combat earplugs failed to protect them. A federal court told the Securities and Exchange Commission to reconsider Grayscale Bitcoin Trust’s request to form a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Toyota shut down assembly lines at 14 facilities after a computer-processing system broke down. UBS reported record quarterly earnings of $29 billion.
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