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U.S. airline industry (passenger and cargo airlines combined) employment increased to 796,203 workers in February 2024, 760 (0.10%) more workers than in January 2024 (795,554) and 42,821 (5.68%) more than in pre-pandemic February 2020 (753,382).
The 2023 annual average domestic itinerary air fare of $382 decreased 3.1% from the 2022 inflation-adjusted annual fare of $394.
Annual Air Fares
Inflation-adjusted
Annual 2023 fare: $382
All years: Down 36.4% from the highest fare for any year, $600 in 2000
Start of BTS records in 1995...
The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released U.S. airlines’ February 2024 fuel cost and consumption numbers indicating U.S. scheduled service airlines used 1.392 billion gallons of fuel, 4.4% less fuel than in January 2024 (1.456 billion gallons) and 7...
The unemployment rate in the U.S. transportation sector was 5.4% (not seasonally adjusted) in March 2024 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). These data have been updated on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) Unemployment in Transportation dashboard. In March 2024, the...
Transportation contributed $1.7 trillion (6.7%) to the economy in 2022
Transportation services (for-hire, in-house, and household) contributed $1.7 trillion (6.7%) to an enhanced U.S. gross domestic product (GDP)1 of $26.2 trillion in 2022—as measured by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (...
U.S. airline industry (passenger and cargo airlines combined) employment decreased to 795,554 workers in January 2024, 1,159 (0.14%) fewer workers than in December 2023 (796,713) and 45,215 (5.85%) more than in pre-pandemic January 2020 (750,339).
The unemployment rate in the U.S. transportation sector was 5.9% (not seasonally adjusted) in February 2024 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). These data have been updated on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) Unemployment in Transportation dashboard. In February 2024,...