BTS 09-23

U.S. airlines carried 76.2 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in November 2022, seasonally adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS), up 0.3% from October.

BTS reported 66.7 million domestic passengers and 9.5 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in November.

U.S. airline traffic reports are filed monthly with BTS. See the tables that accompany this release on the BTS website for summary data since 2016 (Tables 1-24) and complete data since 2000.

Two measures of U.S. airlines passenger enplanements

November seasonally adjusted

• System-wide enplanements (76.2M) were down 5.5% from the all-time high of 80.7 million reached in January 2020.
• Domestic enplanements (66.7M) were down 5.9% from the all-time high of 70.9 million reached in January 2020.
• International enplanements (9.51M) were down 2.8% from the all-time high of 9.78 million reached in October 2019. 

November unadjusted 

• Systemwide enplanements (71.7M) were down 1.9% from the all-time November high (73.1) reached in 2019.
• Domestic enplanements (63.5M) were down 2% from the all-time November high (64.8) reached in 2019.
• International enplanements (8.19M) were down 0.9% from the all-time November high (8.26) reached in 2019.
   

Table A. Seasonally Adjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods

Table B. Unadjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods

For data filed through November, see accompanying tables. For the complete database of reported data, see Traffic. For an explanation of BTS’ seasonal adjustment methodology, see Seasonal Adjustment.

Reporting Notes
Data are compiled from monthly reports filed with BTS by commercial U.S. air carriers detailing operations, passenger traffic and freight traffic. This release includes data received by BTS from 77 U.S. carriers as of February 2 for U.S. carrier scheduled civilian operations. 

See the BTS Airlines and Airports page for additional scheduled service numbers through November for U.S. airlines. International data by origin and destination is available through August. International totals in this press release consist of all U.S. carrier operations to and from the U.S. and from one foreign point to another foreign point. BTS’ Airlines and Airports page does not include U.S. carriers’ foreign point-to-point flights.

BTS has scheduled March 9 for the release of data through December.

None of the data are from samples. Measures of statistical significance do not apply to the complete air traffic data.

Missing carriers: 2HQ (Elite) has not reported since July 2022 and 34Q (Polaris Aviation Solutions) has not reported since Aug 2022. ExpressJet (EV) is in Chapter 11 and discontinued operations on August 22; there are no operations to report for September and beyond.