Air Travel Consumer Report: October 2019 Numbers

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today released its December 2019 Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on reporting marketing and operating air carrier data compiled for the month of October 2019.  The full consumer report and other aviation consumer matters of interest to the public can be found at http://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer.

October On-Time Performance

In October 2019, reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 82.2%, down from the 84.1% on-time rate in September 2019 and down slightly from 82.3% in October 2018.

For the first 10 months of 2019, the reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 78.5%, down slightly from 78.7% for the same period in 2018.

National Transportation Statistics 12/17/19 Update, Sales Price of Transportation Fuel and other categories

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a guide to historical national-level transportation trends was updated today.

Airline Employment Tables October 2019

October 2019 U.S. Passenger Airline Employment Data

The 21 U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.6% more workers in October 2019 than in October 2018:

• October’s 452,440 full-time equivalents (FTEs) was the highest employment total since March 2003 (458,598 FTEs).
• October was the 72nd consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

Air Traffic November 2019

Table B. Unadjusted Estimated and Reported Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods, November 2019 Estimate

Table A. Seasonally Adjusted Estimated and Reported Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods, November 2019 Estimate

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

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

Estimated November 2019 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

U.S. airlines carried an estimated 78.3 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in November 2019, reaching a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) first estimate, up 0.2% from the October second estimate.

BTS estimated 68.5 million domestic passengers and 9.8 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in November. The domestic and international passenger numbers were both seasonally-adjusted all-time highs.