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Partnership for Open and Fair Skies."
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Air travel system is broken - everyone gets that except airlines
WASHINGTON, DC - US Travel Association Executive Vice President Jonathan
Grella issued the following statement on the Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science, & Transportation hearing on FAA Reauthorization: Airport Issues and
Infrastructure Financing:
"We repeatedly heard two things from the big airlines' representatives: one, there are no infrastructure
problems; and two, even if there were, there's plenty of money to fix them. Well, we're living in two different
realities, because the rest of the travel community keeps looking at the empirical data and arriving at the
exact opposite conclusions. Delays, cancellations and lack of competition among airlines are literally driving
travelers out of the flying market. And the only available revenue streams to address those problems—
federal appropriations and local user fees—have all but disappeared because of tight budgets and inflation.
"We do see why the Big Three airlines so vehemently object: infrastructure modernization equals more
terminal space for competitors, which equals more choices and better fares and service for consumers.
"The senators at the hearing asked very good questions that indicated a firm grasp of the realities facing our
air travel system. The hearing gave us a glimmer of hope that common sense will win out on fixing our
dilapidated aviation infrastructure, not the airlines' bottomless lobbying budgets."
JetBlue Airlines and Southwest Airlines earn top customer experience ratings
JetBlue Airlines and Southwest Airlines deliver the best customer experience in the
airline industry, according to the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual ranking of
companies based on a survey of 10,000 US consumers.
JetBlue took the top spot with a rating of 75%, placing it 52nd overall out of 293
companies across 20 industries. Southwest Airlines came in second with a rating of 72%,
placing it 89th overall. JetBlue shot up from the middle of the pack in 2014 to the top
spot in 2015, improving by an astounding 15 percentage-points over the past year.
At the other end of the spectrum, Spirit Airlines, which made its debut on the ratings this
year, was the lowest-scoring company in the industry. It received a rating of 47%, which put it in 281st place
overall.
The ratings of all airlines in the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings are as follows: JetBlue Airlines (75%),
Southwest Airlines (72%), Delta Airlines (69%), Alaska Airlines (69%), Virgin America (63%), American
Airlines (57%), United Airlines (56%), US Airways (55%), AirTran Airways (52%), and Spirit Airlines
(47%).
Overall, the airline industry averaged a 63% rating in the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings and tied for 12th
place out of 20 industries. It was also one of only five industries to improve its rating over the past year,
increasing its average by 1.2 percentage-points.
Now in its fifth year of publication, the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings is the most comprehensive
benchmark of customer experience in the industry, evaluating 293 companies across 20 industries: airlines,
appliance makers, auto dealers, banks, car rental agencies, computer makers, credit card issuers, fast food
chains, health plans, hotel chains, insurance carriers, Internet service providers, investment firms, parcel
delivery services, retailers, software firms, supermarket chains, TV service providers, utilities, and wireless
carriers.
To generate these ratings, Temkin Group asked 10,000 U.S. consumers to evaluate their recent experiences
with a company across three dimensions: success (can you do what you want to do?), effort (how easy is it to
work with the company?), and emotion (how do you feel about the interactions?). Temkin Group then
averaged these three scores to produce each company's Temkin Experience Rating.
In these ratings, a score of 70% or above is considered "good," and a score of 80% or above is considered
"excellent." In this year's Temkin Experience Ratings, 37% of companies earned a "good" or "excellent"
score, while 26% received a "poor" or "very poor" score.
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