Air Travel Consumer Report: March 2019 and 1st Quarter 2019 Numbers

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

March 2019 Transborder tables

Figure 1: North American Freight by Mode, March 2019

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