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%.

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      8 months ago

      It’s interesting that even Lemmy seems to simp him. I didn’t say anything about him above that isn’t either an objective fact or reasonably deducible from the objective facts.

      His father was a Gramsci expert, but somehow produced neolib Alfred E. Neumann, whose signature moves are verbal blackface, referencing a short paperwork trip as if he was at the Bulge, reducing gayness to a political prop, and assiduously avoiding doing anything to help regular Americans.

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        8 months ago

        Dunno if you’ve seen the mini-documentary that came out about him several years ago but damn. Dude is an actual unfeeling sociopath. I feel so bad for his prop/husband.