Air Travel Consumer Report: September 2024 Numbers and 3rd Quarter Numbers

September 2024 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 1.6% from the Same Month Last Year

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Transportation Cost Burden Falls Significantly for Second-Lowest, but No Other Income Group

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Data Highlights

Truck Transportation Employment

1.59M January 2023, +600K from January 2022

Personal Spending on Motor Vehicles and Parts

$595B Q4 2023, +$29B from Q4 2022

State and Local Gov't Spending on Highway and Street Construction

$5.97B February 2023, +$950M from February 2022

Light Truck Sales

1.07M June 2024, +160K from February 2023

Air Cargo Revenue Ton Miles

2.63B September 2023, +6B from Dec. 2022

Transit Bus Ridership (Fixed Route)

246M December 2022, +25M from December 2021

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September 2024 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 1.6% from the Same Month Last Year

December 12, 2024

U.S. airlines carried 77.5 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in September 2024, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, September enplanements are down 0.4% from August and down 1.7% from the all-time high reached in June 2024.

12/11/2024 Air Travel Consumer Report: September 2024 Numbers and 3rd Quarter Numbers

12/11/2024 October 2024 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Up 0.2% from the Previous Month and Up 0.7% from the Same Month Last Year

12/10/2024 U.S. Cargo and Passenger Airlines Gained 9,949 Jobs in October 2024

12/09/2024 Transportation Services Contributed 6.5% to U.S. GDP in 2023; a Decrease from 6.6% in 2022 but Still Above the Pre-Pandemic 2019 6.3%

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A map depicting the predicted path of Hurricane Milton through the state of Florida with transportation infrastructure shown. The storm path intersects several interstate routes, airports, class 1 railroads, principal maritime ports and the silver star Amtrak route. The storm is expected to make landfall at 2:00 AM on Thursday October 10th, 2024 on the western side of Florida and continue on to the Atlantic Ocean at 2:00 PM on the same day.

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