BTS 47-16 Advisory

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Contact: Nancy Wilochka

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nancy.wilochka@dot.gov

 

BTS Statistics Release: June 2016 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

 

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines’ systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service load factor – a measure of the use of airline capacity – rose to 83.6 percent in June, seasonally adjusted, rising for the third consecutive month (Table 1).

 

The seasonally-adjusted load factor rose from May (83.5) to June (83.6) because passenger travel grew faster (0.6 percent increase in Revenue Passenger-Miles (RPMs)) than system capacity (0.5 percent increase in Available Seat-Miles (ASMs)) (Tables 4, 7).

 

Load factor is a measure of the use of aircraft capacity that compares the system use, measured in RPMs as a proportion of system capacity, measured in ASMs.

 

 

Trends:

Seasonally-adjusted

Systemwide load factor (83.6) was down 1.1 points from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (84.7) reached in October 2015. Domestic load factor (84.8) was down 1.4 points from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (86.2) reached in October 2015. International load factor (80.9) was down 2.2 points from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (83.1) reached in March 2013.

           

Systemwide RPMs (78.3 billion) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.6 percent from May 2016. Domestic RPM (55.3 billion) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.3 percent from May 2016. International RPMs (23.1 billion) were down 0.1 percent from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (23.1 billion) reached in July 2015.

 

Systemwide ASMs (93.7 billion) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.5 percent from May 2016. Domestic ASMs (65.2 billion) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.6 percent from May 2016. International ASMs (28.5 billion) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.3 percent from May 2016.

 

Systemwide passenger enplanements (69.0 million) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, slightly exceeding the previous high in May 2016 by 4,000 passengers. Domestic passenger enplanements (60.2 million) were down 0.2 percent from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (60.3 million) reached in May 2016. International passenger enplanements (8.8 million) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 1.1 percent from May 2016 .

 

Unadjusted

Systemwide load factor (86.6) was down 0.4 points from the all-time June high (87.0) reached in 2013. Domestic load factor (87.6) was up 0.2 points from the all-time June high (87.4) reached in 2014. International load factor (84.5) was down 2.4 points from the all-time June high (86.9) reached in 2013.

           

Systemwide RPMs (86.4 billion) reached an all-time June high, up 4.5 percent from the previous high (82.7 billion) reached in 2015. Domestic RPMs (60.2 billion) reached an all-time June high, up 5.5 percent from the previous high (57.0 billion) reached in 2015. International RPMs (26.2 billion) reached an all-time June high, up 2.1 percent from the previous high (25.7 billion) reached in 2015.

 

Systemwide ASMs (99.7 billion) reached an all-time June high, up 4.2 percent from the previous high (95.7 billion) reached in 2015. Domestic ASMs (68.7 billion) reached an all-time June high, up 5.3 percent from the previous high (65.2 billion) reached in 2015. International ASMs (31.1 billion) reached an all-time June high, up 1.9 percent from the previous high (30.5 billion) reached in 2015.

 

Systemwide passenger enplanements (74.4 million) reached an all-time June high, up 4.5 percent from the previous high (71.3 million) reached in 2015. Domestic passenger enplanements (64.7 million) reached an all-time June high, up 4.7 percent from the previous high (61.8 million) reached in 2015. International passenger enplanements (9.7 million) reached an all-time June high, up 3.0 percent from the previous high (9.5 million) reached in 2015.

 

See Air Traffic Release for summary tables and additional data. Additional traffic data can be found on the BTS Airlines and Airports page. Click on a link in the Quick Links box on the right. See Load factor, RPMs, ASMs  and Passengers. For more historical data, see Traffic on the BTS website. See Seasonal Adjustment for methodology and additional explanation. See data for airline data since 2000 as well as seasonally-adjusted data for rail, transit, pipelines, trucking and waterways.

 

 

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