March 2019 North American Transborder Freight Numbers

Transborder freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in March 2019:

• Total Transborder Freight: $107.2 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 1.4% compared to March 2018
• Most-used mode: Truck moved $67.4 billion of freight, up 1.3% compared to March 2018
• Second mode: Rail moved $16.2 billion of freight, up 0.6% compared to March 2018

Air Traffic April 2019

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

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

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

Estimated April 2019 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

U.S. airlines carried an estimated 75.3 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in April 2019, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) first estimate, up 0.3% from the March second estimate.

Airline Employment Tables March 2019

Figure 1: North American Freight by Mode, June 2019

Employees at U.S. Scheduled Passenger Airlines Month of March, 1990-2019

March 2019 U.S. Passenger Airline Employment Data

The 21 U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.5% more workers in March 2019 than in March 2018:

• March’s 444,967 full-time equivalents (FTE) was the highest March employment total since March 2003 (458,598 FTEs).  
• March was the 65th consecutive month that FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.