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Flight Delays
Comments 0 | Recommend 0May 22, 2008 - 5:11PM
Domestic flight delays cost the industry and passengers $40.7-billion in 2007 according to a report released Thursday by the House and Senate.
The study said more than 20% of all flight time last year was wasted on delays.
The report is the latest bit of bad news for a battered industry. Carriers have been raising ticket prices and attaching fees to basic services to try and minimize losses.
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