The Transportation Department report covers 12 airline companies but excludes smaller carriers such

The U.S. Transportation Department said Tuesday that the nation's biggest airlines achieved an on-time arrival rating of 79.6 percent in April. That is up from 77.6 percent in March and 77.3 percent in April 2013.
The government said that canceled flights were down — 1.1 percent of domestic flights, compared with 1.8 percent in April 2013. And no domestic flights rental car and salt lake city were stuck on the ground for more than three hours, although one international flight remained on the tarmac for four hours, exceeding the limit in federal rules.
The airlines reported that for every 1,000 passengers rental car and salt lake city in April, there were 2.92 bags that were lost, stolen, damaged or delayed, down slightly from the 3.07 rate in April 2013. Virgin America rated best at bag handling, while Envoy was worst by a wide margin.
Complaints to the government rose 16 percent, but the number of consumers who filed a formal complaint remained tiny — 1,259 complaints out of 483,499 flights rental car and salt lake city that were tracked. Southwest had the lowest rate of complaints; Frontier Airlines had the highest.
The Transportation Department report covers 12 airline companies but excludes smaller rental car and salt lake city carriers such as Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air because their revenue from domestic flights is less than 1 percent rental car and salt lake city of the industry total. — The Associated Press