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1526

March 2018 Passenger Airline Employment Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.8 percent more workers in March 2018 than in March 2017:

  • The highest monthly full-time equivalent (FTE) employment total (434,243 FTEs) since December 2004 (436,909 FTEs).
  • The 53rd consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

Commodity Flow Survey Overview

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), a component of the Economic Census, is conducted every five years by the U.S. Census Bureau in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The 2017 CFS is the sixth survey in the program that began in 1993. The CFS is a shipper survey of approximately 100,000 establishments from the industries of mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade, auxiliaries (i.e. warehouses and distribution centers), and select retail and service trade industries that ship commodities.