Data Highlights

$1.48M July 2026, -20K from July 2025
$608B Q3 2026, -$2B from Q3 2025
1.14M July 2026, -3K from July 2025
2.5B May 2026, +1M from May 2025
317M June 2026, +13M from June 2025

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U.S. Airlines’ July 2026 Aviation Fuel Cost down 1.8%, Consumption up 3.8%, and Fuel Cost per Gallon down 5.4% from June 2026

The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) released U.S. airlines’ July 2026 fuel cost and consumption numbers indicating total fuel expenditure ($5.89B) of U.S. scheduled service airlines was down 1.8% from June 2026 ($5.99B) and up 43.0% from July 2025 ($4.12B). The airlines used 1.732 billion gallons of fuel, 3.8% more fuel than in June 2026 (1.668 billion gallons) and 1.6% less fuel than July 2025 (1.760 billion gallons). The cost per gallon of fuel in July