Berkeley, CA, United States (AHN) – According to a University of California, Berkeley study, domestic flight delays costs the U.S. economy $33 billion. The study commissioned by the Federal Aviation Administration found that most of that cost is borne by airline passengers.
Researchers analyzed data from 2007 and found that increased delays directly correlate with increased costs.
Before this work no one actually analyzed the data to see how flight delay affects airline cost or passenger lateness,” said Mark Hansen, UC Berkeley civil and environmental engineering professor and lead researcher on the study.
“While there are a lot of widely available data on flight delays, passenger itineraries, and airline costs, this is the first attempt to fully exploit that information to measure the impacts of delay.”
According to Hansen previous estimates of these costs relied on assumptions and expert opinion, while the new study’s results are largely driven by the actual data.
Of the total costs, $16.7 billion, slightly more than half the cost, was paid by passengers, the study found.
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