Number 31 Technical Directive: On-Time Reporting, effective Jan. 1, 2019

ISSUE DATE:   December 12, 2018   ...

Table 4 Ranking of Major Airport On-Time Arrival Performance Year-to-date through January 2025

Table 6 Ranking of Major Airport On-Time Departure Performance Year-to-date through January 2025

Air Travel Consumer Report: October 2018 Numbers

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today released its December 2018 Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on marketing and reporting air carrier data compiled for the month of October 2018.  The full consumer report and other aviation consumer matters of interest to the public can be found at http://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer.

October 2018 U.S. Passenger Airline Employment Data

.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.5 percent more workers in October 2018 than in October 2017:

• October’s 441,139 full-time equivalents (FTE) was the second highest monthly employment total since 2004, exceeded only by July 2018 (443,475 FTEs).
• October was the 60th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

October 2018 FTE data tables

Scheduled Passenger Airline Full-Time Equivalent Employees, Month of October, 1990-2018

Estimated November 2018 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

U.S. airlines’ carried an estimated 74.1 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers, seasonally-adjusted, in November 2018, virtually unchanged from the October estimate, according to a Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) first estimate.

Figure 2. Unadjusted Systemwide Passenger Enplanements on All U.S. Scheduled Airlines (Domestic & International), Nov 2015 - Nov 2018 (Oct-Nov2018 estimated)

Figure 1. Seasonally-Adjusted Systemwide Passenger Enplanements on All U.S. Scheduled Airlines (Domestic & International), Nov 2015 - Nov 2018 (Oct-Nov 2018 estimated)