Figure 2. Domestic U.S. Scheduled Service Passenger Airlines Quarterly After Tax Net Profit, 2Q 2019

Figure 1. Systemwide U.S. Scheduled Service Passenger Airlines Quarterly After Tax Net Profit, 2Q 2019

Second Quarter 2019 U.S. Airline Financial Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines reported a second-quarter 2019 after-tax net profit of $4.8 billion, the 25th consecutive quarterly after-tax profit, and a pre-tax operating profit of $6.9 billion, the 33rd consecutive quarterly pre-tax profit.

U.S. airline financial reports are filed quarterly with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). See the tables that accompany this release on the BTS website for additional second-quarter 2019 (Tables 1-6) financial results.

Air Traffic August 2019

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