2018 Annual and 4th Quarter U.S. Airline Financial Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines reported a 2018 after-tax net profit of $11.8 billion, the sixth consecutive annual after tax profit, and a pre-tax operating profit of $17.6 billion, the 10th consecutive annual pre-tax profit.

Figure 2. Fares by Airport Group based on Number of Originating Domestic Passengers 4Q 2018

Figure 1. U.S. Average Domestic Annual Fares, 1995-2018

Annual and Fourth-Quarter 2018 Air Fare Data

The 2018 average domestic itinerary air fare of $350 was the lowest inflation-adjusted annual fare since the Bureau of Transportation Statistics began collecting such records in 1995, down 1.8 percent from the previous low of $356 in 2017.

February 2019 Regularly Scheduled Flights with More than 50% Delayed Arrivals of More than 30 Minutes

Ranked by Airline On-Time Performance, Marketing Carrier since 2018

Year-to-date Airline On-Time Performance for Each Month, Marketing Carriers since 2018

Airline Employment February tables 2019

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.

Scheduled Passenger Airline Full-Time Equivalent Employees, Month of February, 1990-2019