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Commercial aviation

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Increase in Regional Air Travel during Thanksgiving

On average, BTS estimates1 that 2.03 million passengers per day traveled by air over the 12-day Thanksgiving holiday period from Nov. 16 through Nov. 27, 2018. The Sunday after Thanksgiving was the busiest day with 2.33 million passengers, 300,000 more than the average and the highest daily...

Air Travel Consumer Report: May 2019 Numbers

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today released its July 2019 Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on reporting marketing and operating air carrier data compiled for the month of May 2019.  The full consumer report and other aviation consumer matters of interest to the public can be found at http://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer.

 

May On-Time Performance

In May 2019, reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 77.9%, down from both the 79.8% on-time rate in April 2019 and from 79.2% in May 2018.