PRODUCER PRICES OF AIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

Producer Price Index: Air Transportation Services (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)

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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/.