Table 2. Value of Monthly U.S.-NAFTA Freight Flows by Mode of Transportation, October 2017

Table 1. Value of Monthly U.S.-NAFTA Freight Flows, October 2017

BTS Issues Freight TSI Technical Note

Friday, December 15, 2017 – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics has released Technical Note, Long-Term Growth in Freight Transportation Services: Methods and Findings, which examines the pattern of freight transportation services beginning in 2004 until the Great Recession beginning in December 2007, as measured by the Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), and compares it to the pattern from the recession through 2016.

October 2017 Passenger Airline Employment Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 3.4 percent more workers in October 2017 than in October 2016, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. October was the highest monthly full-time equivalent (FTE) employment total (430,232 FTEs) since January 2005 (430,780) and was the 48th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines' FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

October 2017 Airline Employment Tables

Scheduled Passenger Airline Full-Time Equivalent Employees, Month of October, 1990-2017

Table 15: Regional Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees*, October 2013 - 2017

Table 14: Regional Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees* by Month 2013 - 2017, October 2017

Table 13: Regional Airline Year-to-Year Change in Full-time Equivalent Employees* from the Previous Year, October 2017

Table 12: Low-Cost Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees*, October 2013 - 2017