Table B. Unadjusted Estimated and Reported Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods, August Estimate

Table A. Seasonally Adjusted Estimated and Reported Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods, August Estimate

Figure 2. January-August Passengers on U.S. Airlines - 2003-2019

Figure 1. Monthly Passengers on U.S. Scheduled Airlines (Domestic + International), Seasonally Adjusted, Aug 2016 - Aug 2019 (July 2019-Aug 2019 estimated)

Estimated August 2019 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

U.S. airlines carried an estimated 78.2 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in August 2019, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) first estimate, up 0.3% from the July second estimate.

The BTS estimate of the August enplanement total of 78.2 million was a seasonally-adjusted all-time high.

BTS estimated 68.5 million domestic passengers and 9.8 million international passengers on U.S. airlines in August.

July Airline On-Time/Tarmac Data

June 2019 U.S. Passenger Airline Employment Data

The 21 U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.4% more workers in June 2019 than in June 2018:

• June’s 449,985 full-time equivalents (FTE) was the highest employment total for any month since March 2003 (458,598 FTEs).  
• June was the 68th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

Air Traffic July 2019

Table B. Unadjusted Estimated and Reported Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods, July Estimate

Table A. Seasonally Adjusted Estimated and Reported Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods, July Estimate