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U.S. scheduled passenger airlines reported a 2018 after-tax net profit of $11.8 billion, the sixth consecutive annual after tax profit, and a pre-tax operating profit of $17.6 billion, the 10th consecutive annual pre-tax profit.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a guide to historical national-level transportation trends was updated today.
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, fell 0.5 percent in February from January, falling after a one month increase. For the 12 months ending in February 2019, the index rose 3.2 percent compared to 6.7 percent for the previous 12-month period (Table 4).
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data was updated today.
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KEY: R = revised.
a Other includes "flyaway aircraft" or aircraft moving under their own power (i.e., aircraft moving from the manufacturer to a customer and not carrying any freight), powerhouse (electricity), vessels moving under their own power, pedestrians carrying freight, mode unknown, mail, imports into Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs), and miscellaneous. Although FTZs are treated as a mode of transportation in the Transborder Freight Data, the actual mode for a specific shipment into or out of an FTZ is unknown because U.S....
Transborder freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in 2018:
U.S. airlines and foreign airlines serving the U.S. carried an all-time high of 1.0 billion systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in 2018, 4.8 percent more than the previous record high of 965.4 million reached in 2017. The year-over-year systemwide increase resulted from a 4.9 percent rise in the number of passengers on domestic flights (777.9 million passengers in 2018) and 4.4 percent growth in passengers on U.S. and foreign airlines’ flights to and from the U.S. (233.6 million passengers in 2018) (Tables 1, 1A, 5, 9). Systemwide passengers include those on scheduled domestic flights plus those on scheduled flights to and from the United States.