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Domestic Aircraft Capacity Utilization: Air Passenger Revenue Load Factor

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Domestic Aircraft Capacity Utilization: Air Passenger Revenue Load Factor

Passenger Revenue Load Factor (monthly data)

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Passenger Revenue Load Factor (monthly data). If you are a user with disability and cannot view this image, use the table version. If you need further assistance, call 800-853-1351.

Load factor is related to the potential capacity of a system relative to its actual performance. The data include both transborder and foreign flights by large U.S. carriers, but do not include any flights by foreign carriers.

Domestic Revenue Load Factors Apr-04 Apr-05
Passenger revenue load factors (percent) 76.87 76.92
Percent change from same month previous year 5.65 0.07

NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.

The dramatic changes in the September 2001 data reflect the impact of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, on aviation, including several days in which commercial air operations were suspended.

The data reported here excludes small-certificated and commuter carriers that began reporting T100 data in 2002 for comparability with previous issues.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Air Carrier Traffic Statistics Monthly, July 2005.