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Airlines Report No Tarmac Delays Over Three Hours on Domestic Flights, One Tarmac Delay Longer Than Four Hours on an International Flight in June

WASHINGTON Airlines reported no tarmac delays of more than three hours on domestic flights and one tarmac delay of more than four hours on an international flight in June, according to the U.S. Department of Transportations Air Travel Consumer Report released today. All U.S. and foreign airlines operating at least one aircraft with 30 or more passenger seats must

1st-Quarter 2014 Air Fare Data

The average domestic air fare decreased to $381 in the first quarter of 2014, down 1.0 percent from the average fare of $384 in the first quarter of 2013, adjusted for inflation (Table 1), the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. During that January to March period, Cincinnati, Ohio, had the highest average fare,

2013 Border Crossing/Entry Data

Friday, July 25, 2014 - The number of commercial truck crossings into the United States from Canada and Mexico was 10.8 million in 2013, 1.1 percent more than in 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).  That 2013 increase follows increases from 2010 to 2012 after four years of decline from 2005 to 2009, a period that includes the last recession.

May 2014 North American Freight Numbers

U.S.-NAFTA trade totaled $103.9 billion in May 2014 as four of five transportation modes – vessel, pipeline, rail, and trucks – carried more U.S.-NAFTA trade than in May 2013, according to the TransBorder Freight Data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) (Figure 1, Table 1).

Geographic Databases for 2014

Friday, July 18, 2014 - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics released the 2014 edition of the National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) this week. The NTAD is a compilation of datasets representing the nation’s transportation infrastructure including more than 500,000 miles of roadway, over 607,000 bridges and 19,721 airports. The 2014 edition includes, for the first time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration highway crash data.

May 2014 Passenger Airline Employment Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 385,619 workers in May 2014, 1.1 percent more than in May 2013, the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today.May was the sixth consecutive month that full-time equivalent (FTE) employment for U.S. scheduled passenger airlines was higher thanthesame month of

April 2014 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

The U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines carried 63.1 million systemwide (domestic + international) scheduled service passengers in April 2014, 3.4 percent more than in April 2013. The systemwide total was the result of a 3.0 percent increase in the number of passengers on domestic flights (54.8

May 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)

The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 0.6 percent in May from April, rising for the fourth consecutive month, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) released today.