Table 5. Unadjusted Average Domestic Airline Fares by Quarter, 1Q 2017

Table 4. Unadjusted 1st Quarter Average Fares, 1995-2017, 1Q 2017

Table 3. Inflation-Adjusted Average Domestic Airline Fares by Quarter, 1Q 2017

Table 2. Passenger Airline Revenue from Fares 1990-2017, 1Q 2017

Table 1. 1st Quarter Average Fare 1995-2017, Adjusted for Inflation, 1Q 2017

May 2017 Passenger Airline Employment Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 3.6 percent more workers in May 2017 than in May 2016, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. May was the highest monthly full-time equivalent (FTE) total (425,251) since July 2005 (428,091) and was the 43nd consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

Bus Profile

KEY:  N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are unavailable.

^a In 2003, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration implemented a program to improve reporting by Class I intercity bus carriers. This accounts for the large increase in Number of operating companies between 2002 and 2003, and as a result the large increase in Operating revenues and Operating expenses. For all years, New Jersey Transit has been excluded from the totals because of its status as a publicly run carrier.

^b Urban...

Truck Profile

KEY: N = data do not exist; NA = not applicable; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^aTruck transportation (NAICS 484) - Industries primarily engaged in over-the-road transportation of cargo using motor vehicles, truck-tractors, and trailers.

Couriers and messengers (NAICS 492) - Establishments primarily engaged in providing air, surface, or combined courier delivery services of parcels or primarily engaged in furnishing local messenger and delivery services of small items within a single metropolitan area or urban center...

U.S. Air Carrier Aircraft Departures, Enplaned Revenue Passengers, and Enplaned Revenue Tons

KEY: R = revised.

^a Total performed includes scheduled departures performed minus those scheduled departures that did not occur plus unscheduled service.

^b The number of persons receiving air transportation from an air carrier for which remuneration is received by the carrier, excluding persons receiving reduced rate charges, such as air carrier employees, infants, and others (except ministers of religion, elderly individuals, and handicapped individuals).

^c The number of short tons transported on a...

Light Duty Vehicle, Short Wheel Base and Motorcycle Fuel Consumption and Travel

KEY:  U = data are unavailable.

^a 1960-1994 data include Motorcycles.