Airlines' treatment of passengers slowly improves

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Flying is getting better. Honest.

For airline passengers grappling with fare increases, canceled routes and a seemingly endless parade of new fees, "better" may not be the first word that comes to mind. But based on more traditional yardsticks ? lost bags, delayed flights, lousy service and bumpings from full planes ? airlines are doing a better job, say private researchers who have analyzed federal data on airline performance.

Airlines are slowly, steadily recovering from their meltdown five years ago, when, under the strain of near-record consumer travel demand, their performance tanked. Industry performance for all four measurements was slightly better in 2011 compared with 2010, according to the report being released Monday.

"Airlines are finally catching up with what their promise is, which is getting you there on time 80 percent of the time with your bags," said Dean Headley, a business professor at Wichita State University who has co-written the annual report for 22 years.

"They realize that people are paying a lot more money, and the system is more complex than it was, and they have to do a better job," he said. "To their credit, I think they are doing a better job."

With higher fuel costs, airfares are trending up, although increases vary significantly depending on whether the passenger is flying between major airports, or is heading to or from a small or medium-sized airport, Headley said. As airlines cut back service to smaller airports, the cost of air travel in small and medium cities is increasing, he said.

"It really depends on the market you are in," Headley said, noting that in 2010 he paid $275 to fly round-trip from Wichita, Kan., to Washington, where he released that year's report. This year, the same trip cost him $360.

In judging quality of performance, low-cost carriers that mainly fly between large hubs tend to fare the best, Headley said. The large airlines that have been around since before airline deregulation in the early 1980s tend to fall in the middle. Regional airlines, which often fly smaller planes that have more difficulty avoiding storms, generally pull up the rear.

Airline performance last year was likely helped by a mild winter in much of the country despite an "October surprise" snowstorm that snarled the Northeast, he said.

Hawaiian Airlines did the best job of arriving on time with an average of 92.8 percent, while JetBlue Airways had the worst on-time performance, 73.3 percent. A flight is considered on time if it arrives within 15 minutes of when it was originally due.

Nearly half the 15 airlines improved their on-time arrival performance in 2011, and seven had an on-time arrival percentage over 80 percent ? Hawaiian, Southwest Airlines, AirTran Airways, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Mesa Airlines. The average on-time performance for the industry was 80 percent last year, just a tad better than 2010's average of 79.8 percent.

Mesa had the highest rate of passengers with tickets who were denied boarding, at 2.27 per 10,000 passengers. Such "bumpings" are usually due to overbooking. JetBlue had the lowest rate of bumped passengers, .01 per 10,000 passengers.

Ten airlines improved their denied boardings rate in 2011.

American Eagle, which is owned American's parent company, AMR Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas, recorded the largest improvement, and Atlantic Southeast Airlines had the largest decline. Jet Blue, with its near zero rate, and Hawaiian, with a rate of 0.11 per 10,000 passengers, were clearly the industry leaders in avoiding bumping incidents. Industry performance was better in 2011 with an average bumping rate of .78 per 10,000 passengers compared with 1.08 the year before.

AirTran had the best baggage handling rate, 1.63 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers. American Eagle had the worst baggage handling rate, 7.32 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers. That was more than double the industry rate of 3.35.

Seven airlines improved mishandled baggage rates in 2011: Alaska, American, Atlantic Southeast, Delta, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue and SkyWest Airlines. The mishandled baggage rate for the industry decreased from 3.49 per 1,000 passengers in 2010 to 3.35 last year.

Southwest Airlines once again had the lowest consumer complaint rate, 0.32 complaints per 100,000 passengers; United Airlines had the highest consumer complaint rate at 2.21.

Headley attributed United's high complaint rate to rough patches in the airline's merger with Continental. The airlines, which merged their reservation operations in March, now operate under the United name.

The overall rate of customer complaints was virtually unchanged, 1.19 in 2011 compared to 1.22 in 2010. Only five of 15 airlines improved their customer complaint rates for 2011 ? AirTran, Delta, Frontier, Hawaiian and JetBlue.

The majority of complaints fell into four categories: flight problems, 34.9 percent; baggage, 14.3 percent; customer service, 12.1 percent, and reservations, ticketing and boarding, 11.2 percent.

The ratings are based on data submitted to the Transportation Department by the 15 airlines who carried the most passengers domestically last year ? AirTran, Alaska, American, American Eagle, Atlantic Southeast, Continental, Delta, Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Mesa, SkyWest, Southwest, United and US Airways. Headley and Purdue University aviation technology professor Brent Bowen, co-writer of the report, are scheduled to release an overall ranking of performance on Monday. Their research is sponsored by Purdue, in Indiana, and Wichita State.

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Samsung Series 9 15-inch (NP900X4B-A02US)

Last year?before Intel launched its ultrabook initiative?Samsung staked a claim to the thinnest Windows laptop with the 13.3-inch Samsung Series 9 (since replaced by an even slimmer 2012 model). This year Samsung has thin-sliced another executive status symbol with the Samsung Series 9 15-inch (NP900X4B-A02US) ($1,499 list), which the company claims is almost 50 percent more compact than any existing 15-inch laptop. Samsung doesn't call it an ultrabook, but at 3.6 pounds and 0.6 inch thick, the new Series 9 (NP900X4B-A02US) is barely heavier than many 13.3-inch ultrabooks?and makes systems that meet Intel's 0.83-inch-thick guideline for 15-inch ultrabooks, such as the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3-581TG, look chubby.

It also makes us a little unsure how to classify it; except for its larger screen, the Series 9 15-inch's ultrabook-like components keep it from qualifying as a true desktop replacement like our Editors' Choice Samsung Series 7 Chronos (NP700Z5A-S03) ($1,299 list, 4 stars) or the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (late 2011) ($1,799 direct, 4 stars). Probably the new Series 9's closest competitor is HP's Envy 14 Spectre ($1,399.99 direct, 4 stars), which offers the same Intel Core i5 processor, 128GB solid-state drive, and 1,600-by-900 screen resolution, albeit in a screen one inch smaller. Like the Spectre, the Series 9 15-inch is a way to stand out from the ultrabook crowd, even as ultrabooks stand out from the laptop crowd.

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The Series 9 15-inch (NP900X4B-A02US) boasts an aluminum one-piece shell in a handsome shade? Samsung calls it Titan Silver?with a touch of dark blue. It measures 0.6 by 14 by 9.3 inches (HWD), with an ample palm rest and space on either side of the black tile keyboard.

The keyboard has dedicated Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn keys but no numeric keypad. It offers a tolerable typing feel, but shallower travel than the Spectre and some other thicker systems' keyboards, and is backlit, but quite dimly?we had trouble detecting the backlight in all but the darkest environments. The large touchpad has clickable lower corners instead of dedicated mouse buttons; it has a smooth, almost slippery feel. Annoyingly, it occasionally failed to register our taps on the touchpad surface, but a driver update during our testing helped.

The 15.0-inch display is not dim or dark in the slightest?it's impressively bright even with the backlight dialed down a notch, with a matte finish, sharp contrast, and crisp colors as well as the extra resolution (1,600 by 900 versus 1,366 by 768) that's a real treat for multitaskers or image editors and unavailable on 13.3-inch ultrabooks except for the Asus Zenbook UX31-RSL8 ($1,049 list, 4 stars). Impressively for such a thin system, the screen shows next to no flex or wobble when grasped by the corners, as opposed to more bendy ultrabooks such as the Toshiba Portege Z835-P370.

Features
Samsung earns kudos for including an SD card slot?hidden behind a nifty folding door on the laptop's right side?and three USB ports?two USB 3.0 on the right and one USB 2.0 on the left. Other ports are miniaturized, with a micro Ethernet port (dongle included) and micro HDMI port (dongle not included) on the left and a micro VGA port (dongle not included) on the right. In case you haven't guessed, the super-skinny Samsung has no optical drive.

Wireless connectivity options include the trifecta of 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Intel Wireless Display (WiDi), but not the Intel Smart Connect technology that lets the HP Envy 14 Spectre and Dell XPS 13 ($999.99 direct, 4 stars) update e-mail, social network, and other information while the system sleeps.

Samsung backs the Series 9 15-inch with a one-year warranty, and fills its 128GB SSD?all but a scanty 57GB of it out of the box?with an array of helpful system-settings utilities, 60-day trial of Norton Internet Security, Skype, the WildTangent games suite, and a recovery partition. The system's cold boot times, helped by a Fast Boot utility that turns off Windows 7's startup animation, averaged a blazing 17 seconds and its resume-from-sleep times 2.5 seconds by our stopwatch.

Performance
The Series 9 15-inch has the same 1.6GHz Intel Core i5-2467M processor as numerous other ultrabooks ranging from the Dell XPS 13 to our Editors' Choice HP Folio 13, but teams it with 8GB of memory instead of the usual 4GB. That helped it post an impressive PCMark 7 performance score of 3,611, topping the other Core i5-2467M ultrabooks we've tested (such as the Folio 13 at 3,146 and Envy Spectre at 3,221). The Samsung also wins the Core i5-2467M class crown in our Handbrake video encoding and Adobe Photoshop CS5 image editing tests, with times of 2 minutes 28 seconds and 5 minutes 20 seconds, respectively.

Like other systems with Intel HD Graphics 3000 integrated graphics, the NP900X4B-A02US is no choice for serious gamers, struggling to around 18 frames per second apiece in our Lost Planet 2 (DirectX 9) and Crysis (DirectX 10) tests. It finished half a step behind the MacBook Air 13-inch (4,781 versus 4,561) in the 3DMark06 graphics benchmark.

The Series 9 15-inch's non-removable 62Wh battery lasted a solid 7 hours (plus 1 minute) in our MobileMark 2007 rundown test, trailing behind the HP Folio 13 (7:33) and Envy 14 Spectre (8:04) but outlasting the Dell XPS 13 (5:58) and Asus Zenbook UX31-RSL8 (6:09) by roughly an hour apiece?and most full-sized 15-inch laptops by considerably more.

Speaking of full-sized 15-inch laptops, can the Samsung Series 9 15-inch replace one? It's a tempting proposition?we can't emphasize enough that this machine is just marvelously thin and light, every bit the showpiece that the 13.3-inch Series 9 is. On the other hand, if your workload involves serious number-crunching or video encoding, you'll probably choose to carry a slimline laptop's one or two extra pounds rather than settle for what amounts to the performance of an ultrabook.

By contrast, if your workload centers on office productivity suitable for an ultrabook, your choice will come down to the Samsung's big, bright screen versus some ultrabooks' better keyboards and full-sized ports. The latter factors, and its lower price, keep the HP Folio 13 in place as our ultrabook Editors' Choice, but the Series 9 15-inch joins the HP Envy 14 Spectre as a premium alternative.

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Putting healthcare where kids trip over it - HealthyCal.org

By Callie Shanafelt, California Health Report

The Oakland Unified School District wants to be the first major urban school district in the nation to guarantee universal access to primary health care to all its students.

A patchwork of funds ? an $18 million initiative funded primarily by the City of Oakland, Alameda County and Kaiser Permanente ? is going a long way towards helping the school district reach that goal by the end of the year.

Nine new school-based health centers providing primary care to students were opened or will open between 2010-2012, for a total of 26 throughout the district.

?The greatest challenge of education is the concentration of poverty in urban school districts,? said Alex Briscoe, Director of Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, adding that Oakland schools are a prime example of that challenge.

That kind of poverty, and the health problems that accompany it, can also have a direct impact on how students learn.

?Teachers know that they cannot teach if kids are not in class because they are sick, or their asthma is out of control,? said Serena Clayton, Executive Director of the California School Health Centers Association.

But the concentration of poverty in urban schools also means that a majority of OUSD students qualify for Medi-Cal. When the County opens health centers on or near school campuses, they are reimbursed for most of the services they provide.

Students get services including mental health counseling, physical exams, sports physicals, first aid, vaccinations, dental screenings and treatment, STD screening and treatment and health education about nutrition, fitness, puberty and sexual health at the clinics. Clinic staff also enrolls students in insurance programs and refers them to providers off-site.

Twenty years ago, studies showed adolescents among the least likely to have access to health care and having the lowest rates of primary care use of any age group in the U.S.

?You?ve got to put it where they?ll trip over it,? Clayton said.

That?s what schools, public entities and non-profits have done over the past three decades, starting with teen health centers in high schools that offered preventative health services. Healthy Start began making grants to hundreds of schools for school-based services in the 1990s.

Now there is a more unified effort to provide comprehensive primary care on or near school campuses. All 26 school-based health centers in Alameda County are built and funded through the county, but run by community health clinics.

?They are not just a clinic in a school, they are part of a broader healthcare system,? Briscoe said.

Serena Clayton says school-based health centers provide a unique value to the healthcare system. ?They can monitor chronic disease on a daily basis,? Clayton said. ?They can do education in a way no one else can?in a classroom 1-on-1 with students.?

Gone are the days of a school nurse sitting in an office waiting to give a student a band-aid. ?We have one of the lowest school nurse ratios in the country,? Clayton said. Today, school nurses are integrating into school-based health centers.

The Oakland-based Native American Health Center is involved in six school-based health clinics, two of which they run. Nurse practitioner Bonnie Trinclisti runs the Native American Health Center?s Adolescent Program. Over the past twenty years, she?s seen Oakland?s school-based health centers grow from four nurse stations to 26 clinics.

She spends half her time administering the program and half her time meeting kids in 15-minute blocks at the school-based health centers. ?I do primary care?a lot of reproductive health,? said Trinclisti.

?The biggest barrier to care for kids is their parents,? Trinclisti said. She says it is difficult for parents to take a day off of work to take their child to the doctor off-site. But once kids are in middle or high school, they don?t need a parent with them at their appointments.

Providing mental health services is the biggest challenge at the clinics. ?You can?t get anybody to pay for them,? Trinclisti said. ?Mental health is more needed than any other single support for kids in schools.?

The unmet needs for mental health services and dental access have been the largest complaints about the health care system over the years, Serena Clayton said. Recently, there?s been more funding for dental programs, primarily for prevention, screening, varnish and sealants.

School-based health centers, Clayton said, are the epitome of the principals of health care reform?to transform the way health care is delivered through inexpensive preventative care. Little of the funding for school-based clinics, however, came from the Affordable Care Act.

The Affordable Care Act did provide $100 million for significant and pressing capital needs to improve delivery and support expansion of services at school-based health centers in 2011. The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded a total of $1.2 million in Alameda County to the Oakland Unified School District, Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, Native American Health Center and Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center.

?Right now it?s a little drip in a big ocean,? Bonnie Trinclisti said.

A $399,260 grant to the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency covered some furniture and equipment expenses. A $423,098 grant went to Oakland Unified School District to add an additional portable to the clinic at Oakland Technical High School, doubling their square footage.

The grant will also make it possible for an East Oakland-based community clinic, La Clincia De La Raza, to switch to electronic health records (EHR) at the five school-based health centers they run. All clinics will be expected to switch to EHR by the time health care reform is fully implemented in 2014.

The development of school-based health centers is more of a locally funded effort with $14 million of the $18 million initiative in Oakland coming from voter approved school bonds, Alex Briscoe said.

Serena Clayton originally hoped that the Affordable Care Act would support ongoing operations at the clinics. Support for those expenses are included in the legislation but the funding was not approved.

?It?s like an empty shell that?s sitting there,? Clayton said of the ACA.

She is holding out hope that the next $100 million to be released in the spring will be authorized to fund ongoing operations.

In the meantime, people like Bonnie Trinclisti will continue to piece together whatever funding is available, mostly from Medi-Cal reimbursements and billing for services.

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After grad job slump, big hiring is back at U.S. colleges

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sean Chua expected the hunt for his first job after college to be tough. After all, he watched his brother struggle to find a position when he graduated back in 2008.

But his fears were unwarranted. The 21-year-old justice major at American University sent out only seven resumes before getting an offer earlier this month from IBM for an IT consulting job, making him a beneficiary of a turnaround in the labor market for U.S. graduates. "My mom's first position was with IBM so she is particularly proud," says Chua.

Hiring is back in a big way on many college campuses, one of several signs a recovery in the U.S. jobs market is gaining traction. After four years during which many students graduated to find no job and had only their loans to show for their studies, most college campuses are teeming with companies eager to hire.

A survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) found 2012 hiring is expected to climb 10.2 percent, above a previous estimate of 9.5 percent.

Companies such as General Electric, Amazon, Apple and Barclays Global are looking for new staff, even if some firms remain below the pre-recession levels of new hiring. In another sign of the recovery, some first-time job seekers are receiving multiple offers.

At University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the career service office has seen up to now a 7.4 percent increase in the number of interviews of students by potential employers from last year and the number of companies seeking to recruit for full-time jobs is up 9.2 percent.

Undergraduate business majors reporting full-time job offers is up about 10 percent.

Career experts at a dozen of U.S. schools said they have seen an increase of 15 to 30 percent in the number of companies attending campus career fairs. At University of Florida, the fall career fair garnered 15 percent more companies in attendance than in 2010.

And 150 companies asked to conduct interviews versus about 100 in recent years, said Ja'Net Glover, associate director of employer relations at the school.

The increase in demand was so significant that it was the first time in years the school had to use both the first and second floors of the school's basketball facility for interviews.

"It's kind of like a no-brainer," says Kathy Sims. Director of Career Services at UCLA. "The economy is better and the college recruitment market is improving."

While the U.S. jobless rate fell to 8.3 percent in February, unemployment among college graduates over the age of 25 stood at 4.2 percent. Historically, their jobless rate is half that of Americans with only a high school education. Over the recession, unemployment among graduates climbed as high as 5 percent, sparking protests over the rising tuition cost of some U.S. colleges.

U.S. unemployment data for March, due for release on April 6, is expected to show a total of just over 200,000 jobs were created in the month, keeping the overall unemployment rate at 8.3 percent.

BACKLOG FROM PAST YEARS, INTERNS SOAR

College graduates' earnings are also on the rebound. NACE says the median wage for first-time job seekers after college for 2012 is up 4.5 percent higher than a year ago to $42,569.

That initial pay level can resonate over the span of a career. Several studies show that the life-time earnings for workers who enter the labor force at time of economic recession are lower than lifetime earnings of those who are hired amid an economic recovery.

Given the tepid recovery of the economy, some caution is required.

In 2008, many college graduates who had already accepted job offers were later away. After the run of lean years, many graduates are stuck in low-paying jobs and professions that never intended to follow, meaning there could be a backlog of well-educated workers who need to get their careers on track as well as new graduates.

However, with a wide range of employers -- from automakers to investment banks -- back on campus offering internships and full-time jobs, and not just to engineering, computer science and math majors, the outlook for the Class of 2012 looks rosy.

General Electric wants to hire 5,000 interns this year, up from its usual 3,000 to 4,000. Since 70 percent of its full-time hires come from the interns pool, Steve Canale, head of global recruiting, said that uptick will also translate into more full-time jobs after graduation.

"(Companies) are saying, 'we have an aging workforce, and we have to replenish the pipeline.' GE has always done it, but this year a lot of other companies are also reloading their talent pool," Canale said.

Chrysler said it plans to hire 400 interns this year compared to 256 in 2011. The automaker has also hired almost 4,000 salaried employees since June 2009, about a quarter of which are new college graduates.

The pick-up in hiring extends to industries that were among the hardest hit during the financial crisis. Schools report that banking and financial services companies have returned to campus for the Class of 2012.

It's a stark contrast from just a few years ago when smaller firms appeared on campuses to replace the corporations no longer showing up.

"Even students with lower grades are finding opportunities," says Notre Dame's Svete, who believes job placement at the school is up about 7 percent. In 2009, only 75 percent of students had jobs or plans for graduate school at graduation. This year, the school expects that to climb to 85 to 88 percent, closer to the 90 percent level of 2007.

Nathan Pace, a senior at American University, hasn't yet found a job, but is confident for his future job. He started the college four years ago and he has since seen each class of graduating seniors have better luck finding jobs.

Many of his friends recently secured job offers. "The vibe on campus is that people are excited," says Pace.

(Reporting By Jilian Mincer and Jennifer Merritt, Editing by Tiziana Barghini; Desking by Andrew Hay)

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Cell phones have come to be indispensable and now play a major part in everyone?s lives. With the current technology which has created individuals and nations closer, cell and handheld gadgets can truly be regarded as good inventions and innovations. Gone would be the days when one must go dwelling initially ahead of he can use the phone or visit a community phone booth to location an all-important get in touch with into a beloved one or business speak to. With the existence of cellphones, everyone has now gone wi-fi. Communication has, certainly, turned extremely uncomplicated for all.

Mobile phone phone, as it title suggests, provides mobility. It can be transportable communication device. One can carry it anywhere. It is actually produced potential by satellites that transmit indicators for your phone to ship and get. It is actually extremely convenient as one can utilize it anywhere irregardless of time and area.

Folks everywhere have observed the evolution of communication technologies. From a telephone that uses wires to one that no longer calls for any. From your analog towards the wireless. In some locations, wi-fi telephones were provided with signals by the network business. In other locations, a simulated card in inserted inside the telephone to grab and obtain indicators and ship as well. These phones use the concept of sign transmission and radio wave theories that permits a two-way communication with true time and clearer conversation.

From the analog mobile phones that only permitted calling and voice conversation evolved the cellphones that have text messaging features. It really is a further emergence on the planet of cellular technologies. An individual might send out a text message that may be received by one more party. This message is sent by way of a signal passing to some gateway which transmits it towards the getting get together.

Within the transform of the 20th century, cellphones have turn into additional of a trend and corporations have began to create them appear extra sophisticated. Cell phones started with large dimensions which transformed to smaller kinds and then became bigger once again. It has developed significantly like how computers have. These days, mobile phones usually are not just for communication. Initially, it had the voice phone operate but because the technologies is growing day by day, the cell technologies grows together with it. Cellphones now have been created with unique capabilities and usage that are beyond basic communication usage. These features are consistently updated and extra functions are developed every day.

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Moreover, cellphones are actually applied as computers. With the General Packet Radio Provider (GPRS), browsing the internet has become created possible. GPRS is employed to transmit IP packets which enable users to work with the world wide web where ever they go. People today also use their mobile phones in banking transactions exactly where they are able to ship and obtain income by way of telephone.

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Cellphones will not be only for personal use like it absolutely was in the past. With cell phones, reporters and journalists may possibly now consider and movie reports reports. Safety technique and surveillance will also be feasible.

It is actually seen within the close to future that mobile phones are probably to replace laptops. Using the new mobile phones coming out with the marketplace, viewing and operating on documents only identified in computers at the moment are achievable. It is also seen to change enjoyment gadgets with each of the entertainment functions new cellphones have.

Cellphones usually do not only perform a huge component in technology. Mobile phones also display style and fashion. Thus, to make these phones more appealing and desirable, producers produce these phones in distinctive colours, size, shape, and style.

Cell phones are indeed one of the biggest contributions of technologies. It has gone much beyond what man can imagine. Now, with the emergence of cellular technology, everyone just cannot reside with out one.

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