PRODUCER PRICES OF AIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
PRODUCER PRICES OF AIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
Producer Price Index: Air Transportation Services (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Producer prices for scheduled air transportation services represent prices for business and personal travel, as well as shipment of high-value freight. Because producers also act as retailers, a change in prices charged by airlines is immediately passed on to consumers.
| Price Index (Dec-1992=100) | May-01 | May-02 |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled air transportation - passenger | 180.9 | 179.3 |
| Scheduled air transportation - passenger percent change from same month previous year | 8.49 | -0.88 |
| All air transportation (including nonscheduled) | 156.7 | 156.4 |
| All air transportation (including nonscheduled) percent change from same month previous year | 7.33 | -0.19 |
| Scheduled air transportation - cargo | 101.2 | 104.4 |
| Scheduled air transportation - cargo percent change from same month previous year | 2.95 | 3.22 |
NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality. Data from February 2002 to May 2002 are preliminary.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; June 13, 2002; available at: http://www.bls.gov/ppi/.