Commercial Airline Mishandled Baggage and Mobility Aid Reports

Enplaned baggage and wheelchairs and scooters mishandled by commercial air carriers, reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The data was last updated in December 2023 and is available in multiple formats including XML, CSV, RDF, and JSON.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in mishandled baggage counts to assess airline performance over time.
• Compare rates of mishandled wheelchairs and scooters across different air carriers.
• Correlate mishandling incidents with passenger volume data to calculate per-passenger mishandling rates.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative U.S. Department of Transportation.
• Includes reporting on both baggage and mobility aids (wheelchairs and scooters).
• The dataset was updated in December 2023, indicating recent availability.

Limitations

• The exact number of records, columns, and temporal coverage is unspecified.
• Data granularity (e.g., per-flight, per-airport, monthly) is unknown from the provided description.
• The 'other-license-specified' license requires users to review specific terms before use.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Transportation

Collection Method

Reports submitted by commercial air carriers.

Freshness

Last updated on 2023-12-07.

Geography

United States (implied by the reporting authority)