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Airline Traffic Data

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March 2022 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

BTS 26-22

U.S. airlines carried 69.4 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in March 2022, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), up 4.3% from February.

Seasonally-adjusted, BTS reported 61.8 million domestic passengers and 7.6 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in March.

U.S. airline traffic reports are filed monthly with BTS. See the tables that accompany this release on the BTS website for summary data since 2016 (Tables 1-24) and complete data since 2000.

February 2022 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

BTS 23-22

 

U.S. airlines carried 66.2 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in February 2022, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS), up 9.2% from January.

January 2022 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

BTS 18-22

 

U.S. airlines carried 58.0 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in January 2022, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS), down 14.8% from December.

Full-Year 2021 and December 2021 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

BTS 12-22

U.S. airlines carried 674 million passengers (not seasonally adjusted) in 2021, 82.5% more than in 2020 (369 million, unadjusted). U.S. airline passenger enplanements in 2021 remained 27.3% below pre-pandemic 2019’s 927 million (unadjusted). System-wide 2021 enplanements comprised 612 million passengers on domestic flights and 62 million passengers on international flights (unadjusted).