Amid the myriad of consumer complaints about air travel, there appears to be at least one thing the industry is getting better at: major U.S. carriers are losing less luggage.
Collectively, the 12 major domestic carriers in September had a rate of mishandled bags of 1.99 per 1,000 passengers, down from a rate of 2.33 per 1,000 bags for the year-ago month, according to data compiled monthly by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
For the first nine months of 2017, U.S. carriers mishandled bags at a rate of 2.50 per 1,000 passengers, down from a rate of 2.75 for the year-ago period, the agency said.
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