March Day-by-Day: How Flight Cancellations Rose to 17%

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Cancellations and Flights by Day, March 2020

March 2020 Regularly Scheduled Flights with More than 50% Delayed Arrivals of More than 30 Minutes

Domestic Flights with Tarmac Times of More than 3 Hours and International Flights with Tarmac Times of More than 4 Hours, March 2020

U.S. Airline Preliminary Cargo, March 2020

"Figure 1. Monthly Passengers on U.S. Scheduled Airlines (Domestic + International), Seasonally Adjusted, Feb 2017 - Feb 2020

Table B. Unadjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods, February 2020

Table A. Seasonally Adjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods, February 2020

Air Traffic February 2020 Reported

February 2020 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

U.S. airlines carried 78.3 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in February 2020, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS), down 0.6% from January.

See preliminary March U.S. airlines passenger numbers [Link2Come]

BTS is withholding the scheduled release of estimated U.S. airlines’ traffic data for March and April because the estimates are statistical forecasts based on previous trends. The estimates do not account for the impact of the coronavirus.

In February, there were 68.9 million domestic passengers and 9.3 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights, seasonally-adjusted