National Transportation Statistics 4/24/19 Update, Personal Transportation Expenditures and other categories

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a guide to historical national-level transportation trends was updated today.

National Transportation Atlas Database Spring 2019 Update

Friday, April 19, 2019 - The National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) Spring 2019 update was released today with two new datasets, five revised datasets, and a new data catalog.

Air Travel Consumer Report: February 2019 Numbers

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

Figure 2. Fares by Airport Group based on Number of Originating Domestic Passengers 4Q 2018

Figure 1. U.S. Average Domestic Annual Fares, 1995-2018

Airline Employment February tables 2019

February 2019 U.S. Passenger Airline Employment Data

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

• February’s 443,058 full-time equivalents (FTE) was the highest February employment total since February 2003 (460,852 FTEs).  
• February was the 64th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

Scheduled Passenger Airline Full-Time Equivalent Employees, Month of February, 1990-2019

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

Air Traffic March 2019