THE POINTS GUY RELEASES ITS SIXTH ANNUAL BEST AIRLINES REPORT

Annual Finest Airways Report Reveals Finest and Worst Airways in America Primarily based on Reliability, Total Expertise, Price, Loyalty Choices, and Extra

NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ –Right now, The Points Guy (TPG) has launched its sixth annual Best Airlines Report naming Delta Air Traces the primary airline in America for the fourth 12 months in a row. TPG ranked airways in the US from finest to worst in response to standards together with buyer satisfaction, cabin consolation, on-time data, misplaced baggage information, lounge high quality and extra. The rankings additionally replicate a strategic technique that evaluates all facets of a buyer’s journey — from ticketing by baggage supply and even redeeming rewards for future journeys.

“As journey restrictions have been lifted all over the world and extra folks returned to touring, airways confronted a mountain of challenges this 12 months from labor shortages to unlucky delays making it a tough 12 months for air journey,” stated Brian Kelly, Founding father of The Factors Man. “Within the face of those challenges, our group has labored tirelessly to create this invaluable useful resource that can assist vacationers make educated choices when reserving their subsequent home getaway.”

Southwest Airways took the quantity two spot, with United, American, and Alaska rounding out the highest 5 rankings. Against this, Spirit, Allegiant, and Frontier have been the bottom ranked airways during the last 12 months, with Spirit dropping from eighth place in 2021 to tenth place this 12 months.

Finest Airways Report for 2022 rankings are highlighted beneath:

1. Delta Air Traces
2. Southwest Airways
3. United Airways
4. American Airways
5. Alaska Airways
6. Hawaiian Airways
7. JetBlue Airways
8. Frontier Airways
9. Allegiant Air
10. Spirit Airways

Further takeaways include:

• Delta comes out on high once more: Named the winner for the fourth 12 months in a row, Delta boasts an intensive community of lounges, spectacular buyer satisfaction suggestions, and fewer involuntary bumps than its rivals. Delta noticed the fewest buyer complaints this 12 months with simply 1.25 complaints for each 100,000 passengers. In addition they solely bumped two passengers out of greater than 127 million Delta flyers in 2021, which was spectacular given the state of the airline trade general.
• Hawaiian Airways ranks highest in reliability: For the second straight 12 months, Hawaiian Airways got here out on high when it comes to reliability with the bottom share of delays and cancellations. Over 90% of Hawaiian’s flights arrived on time (inside quarter-hour of the scheduled arrival time), and simply 264 of the airline’s 60,000+ flights have been canceled.
• Southwest wins for inexpensive fares and widespread community Southwest Airways took the highest spot in the price & attain class, which measures how huge a provider’s route community is mixed with how a lot it prices shoppers to fly the provider. Whereas Southwest would not function many locations as another U.S. airways, its airfares have been notably extra inexpensive than the three legacy airways (American, Delta, United) — and Southwest charged the fewest ancillary charges for checked baggage and ticket modifications or cancellations.
• United earns high marks for frequent flyers: United obtained the very best rating within the frequent-flyer class due to a broad portfolio of cobranded bank cards plus the very best variety of airline companions for incomes and redeeming MileagePlus miles.

Report methodology:

This 12 months TPG took into consideration reliability, expertise, loyalty and value & attain for every airline.  TPG additionally examined information from the U.S. Division of Transportation (D.O.T.), together with the variety of passenger complaints filed in opposition to every airline with the D.O.T., in addition to the variety of stories of misplaced baggage every airline had. Moreover, in consulting the airways’ financials and brushing by publicly out there fleet information, the consultants at TPG have been capable of issue all these components — and extra — into the rankings for 2022’s finest airways report.

For all standards, the uncooked scores from the info have been transformed right into a scaled rating from 0 to 10 after which weighted utilizing the next percentages to reach on the closing rating. This ensured that the calculation for every airline’s rating was made relative to the efficiency of others — versus a easy rating system that would not precisely seize these variations.

The total listing of things and weighting was as follows:

• Reliability (30%)
• Timeliness (utilizing information on delayed flights from the D.O.T.)
• Cancellations (utilizing information on canceled flights from the D.O.T.)
• Involuntary bumps (utilizing information on involuntary denied boardings from the D.O.T.)
• Mishandled baggage (utilizing information on mishandled baggage from the D.O.T.)
• Mishandled wheelchairs/scooters (utilizing information on mishandled baggage from the D.O.T.)
• Expertise (25%)
• Cabin options (utilizing information from SeatGuru and inflight amenity choices from every provider’s web site)
• Lounges (utilizing numerical information on the variety of lounges, variety of airports and value of membership for every relevant lounge community)
• Household (utilizing a 0-to-5 rating primarily based on boarding, perks and meals/leisure on board)
• Buyer satisfaction (utilizing information on buyer complaints from the D.O.T.)
• Prices and Attain (20%)
• Route community (utilizing the month-to-month common of home cities served by every airline from the D.O.T.)
• Affordability (utilizing monetary information from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (B.T.S.))
• Bag/change charges (utilizing monetary information from the B.T.S.)
• Loyalty (25%)
• Frequent flyer program (utilizing information from our month-to-month valuations, elite standing stories, and every provider’s web site)
• Award availability (utilizing real-time award stock for well-liked home routes throughout three distinct time intervals)

A full model of TPG’s 2022 Finest Airways Report will be considered here.

For a year-over-year comparability, TPG’s 2021 Finest Airways Report will be considered here.

About The Factors Man

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