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Commercial aviation

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February 2019 U.S. Passenger Airline Employment Data

The 21 U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.5% more workers in February 2019 than in February 2018:

  • February’s 443,058 full-time equivalents (FTE) was the highest February employment total since February 2003 (460,852 FTEs).  
  • February was the 64th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

Estimated March 2019 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

U.S. airlines carried an estimated 74.9 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in March 2019, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) first estimate, up 0.1% from the February second estimate.