According to research sponsored by the Aviation Institute at the University of Nebraska and Wichita State University, more bags are lost, there are fewer on-time flights, and more passengers are being bumped from flights. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that the number of complaints have stabilized since 2005.

More bad news is that the airline industry, according to a spokeman for the Airline Transport Association, expects more delays, lost bags, cancellations, and unhappy passengers.

Unfortunately for those of us who need to travel great distances in a fairly short amount of time, there aren’t any other options that will get us from Point A to Point B as quickly as flying, assuming our flight isn’t cancelled or we aren’t bumped due to overbooking.