Complaints about air travel are soaring. The U.S. Transportation Department said Wednesday that consumer complaints about airlines nearly doubled in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period last year, and kept rising in April and May.

Air travel is getting worse, judging from the number of consumer complaints.

Consumer complaints about airlines nearly doubled in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and kept soaring in April and May, the U.S. Transportation Department said Wednesday.

Those are the latest figures from the government. The Transportation Department said information about complaints has been delayed because there are so many of them to process.

The department said it received 24,965 complaints about airline service in the first three months of the year, up 88% from the first quarter of 2022. Consumers filed another 6,712 complaints in April, up 32% from a year earlier, and 6,465 in May, an increase of 49%.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    184·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t been in an airport since before lockdown. It’s been pretty great. It took a pandemic to make me realize that the act of traveling ruins the fun of visiting places.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I fly often for work and you are 100% correct. It feels like it gets worse every single time. Hence why I only fly drunk or high.

      However, international I don’t see that much difference pre and post.