Low-fare airlines picking up, er, steam
This year’s Airline Quality Rating (AQR home page, warning, ugly site) survey is out, and the no-frills airlines are on the march, they’re taking over — well, if you count 25% market share taking over. Looks like the US is starting to emulate Europe’s air travel industry.
And, in another cool piece of useful information, 4.83 bags for every 1000 passengers were lost, stolen or damaged. That means if you take 100 round-trip flights, odds are you’ll have something done to your luggage.
You could also read the same story on Yahoo! News where the copy editor for AP goes overboard with this headline: Survey: Big Airlines May Become Extinct (warning: this link will be dead in two weeks).
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