Moderate Travel price increases should be modest in North America and around the globe in 2013.
Performance On-Time Arrivals
+14% Improvement 84+16z 83.7% Airline Performance
› On-time arrivals — From 2007 to the first half of 2012, the on-time arriv- als rate improved by 14 percent, from 73.4 to 83.7 percent of domestic flights within 15 seconds of scheduled arrival time. › Mishandled bags — The incidence of mishandled bags has dropped by 58 percent, from seven to three instances per 1,000 domestic passengers. › Flight cancellations — The number of flight cancellations has decreased by 50 percent, from 2 percent to 1 percent of scheduled domestic departures. › Revenues — Per enplaned passenger, 2011 revenues exceeded costs by just 77 cents. Excluding $8.06 in ancillary fees, revenues would have lagged costs by $7.29. › Air-service cuts — Due to rising costs and constraints on revenue production, domestically, the United States has a smaller industry than five years ago. Scheduled domestic U.S. air service in the fourth quarter of 2012 vs. the fourth quarter of 2007: 15.6 percent fewer flights, 12.4 percent fewer seats. See sidebar on p. 56.
ON THE WEB For an online graphic chart comparing 12 major domestic airlines’ baggage fees, go to convn. org/bag-fees. An interactive graphic illustrating the future of baggage handling from Condé Nast Traveler can be found at convn.org/ bag-carousel.