U.S. Airline Revenue Passenger-Miles and Load Factor
Revenue Passenger-Miles (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Load Factor (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
U.S. Airline Revenue Passenger-Miles and Load Factor (Domestic and International) | Aug-14 | Aug-15 |
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Scheduled System U.S. Airlines Total RPM (billions) | 81.23 | 85.23 |
Percent change from same month previous year | + 2.4% | + 4.9% |
Scheduled System U.S. Airlines Load Factor (percent) | 86.91 | 86.65 |
Difference from same month previous year | + 1.4% | - 0.3% |
NOTE: Revenue passenger miles and load factor are for U.S. Carriers only. Revenue passenger miles includes transporting one revenue passenger one mile in revenue service. Airline load factors measure aircraft capacity and are calculated by dividing total revenue passenger miles by available seat miles. The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, available at http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_information/ as of December 2015.