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) | Sep-00 | Sep-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled air transportation - passenger | 174.8 | 184.5 |
| Scheduled air transportation - passenger percent change from same month previous year | 22.34 | 5.55 |
| All air transportation (including nonscheduled) | 151.3 | 158.6 |
| All air transportation (including nonscheduled) percent change from same month previous year | 14.80 | 4.82 |
| Scheduled air transportation - cargo | 96.1 | 99.9 |
| Scheduled air transportation - cargo percent change from same month previous year | -0.94 | 3.96 |
NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.
Data from June 2001 to September 2001 are preliminary.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, available at: http://www.bls.gov/datahome.htm.