BTS 2-Week Outlook
Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases
Feb. 4 through Feb. 15
Upcoming from Feb. 4
Monday, February 4, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, November 2018
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, November 2018
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 11:30am ET
Transportation Services Index, December 2018
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Airline Traffic Data, January 2019 Estimated, November 2018 Reported
Previously Released
Dec. 17 - Transportation Economic Trends 2018, Chapters 6-8
Jan. 11 - Pocket Guide to Transportation
Jan. 25 - National Transportation Atlas Database Winter Update
Jan. 25 - National Transportation Statistics Quarterly Update
Jan. 29 - October Air Traffic Data
Jan. 31 - Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2018
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following datasets in the next two weeks:
- Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, November 2018
Monday, February 4, 2019 - 11:00am ET
BTS Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption database to be updated with November data. Last month, US airlines October fuel cost was was $2.35 per gallon, up 11 cents from September ($2.24) and up 53 cents from October 2017 ($1.82). Industry summary of airline fuel consumption, total fuel cost and price paid per gallon are available on the database. Individual airline numbers through September are available on the BTS website.
- Airline Industry Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, November 2018
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 11:00am ET
BTS Airline Employment database to be updated with November data. Last month, U.S. airlines October employment (725,713 total full-time and part-time)), up 0.4pct from September and up 3.5pct from October 2017 (passenger+cargo). Monthly full-time and part-time employment statistics reported by U.S. airlines that operate at least one aircraft that has more than 60 seats or the capacity to carry a payload of passengers, cargo and fuel weighing more than 18,000 pounds. Includes passenger and cargo airlines.
Database
- Transportation Services Index (TSI), December 2018
- Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 11:30am ET
The Freight TSI measures the month-to-month changes in for-hire freight shipments by mode of transportation. The Passenger TSI measures the month-to-month changes in travel that involves the services of the for-hire passenger transportation sector. In the previous release for November, BTS reported that the Freight TSI rose 1.3 percent in November from October, rising for the fourth consecutive month to reach a new all-time high. The index is now up 6.7 percent in one year, 13.6 percent in two years and 15.9 percent in three years.
- Airline Traffic Data, January 2019 estimate, November 2018 reported
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Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 11:00am ET
BTS estimates air traffic data for November and December based on reported data through October. Estimates are for U.S. airlines monthly passengers, revenue passenger-miles, available seat-miles and load factor for systemwide, domestic and international. Numbers are seasonally-adjusted and unadjusted. In the previous release, U.S. airlines were estimated to have carried 74.1 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in November. The 74.1 million passengers in November were unchanged from the previous month, up 2.7 percent from the previous year and up 9.9 percent from three years earlier. September unadjusted reported systemwide, domestic and international enplanements all reached all-time highs for any September. BTS did not provide a December estimate because of the lapse in appropriations.
October reported data was released on Jan. 29.
BTS Previously
BTS has released the following:
- Transportation Economic Trends 2018, Chapters 6-8
- Dec. 17
BTS released the final three chapters of Transportation Economic Trends 2018, an annual report highlighting important trends in transportation and the economy. The three chapters cover transportation costs and prices, household transportation spending, and transportation productivity. The chapters report that average air fares by trip distance show similar patterns between 2009 and 2017. Changes in air fares ranged from a 7.8 percent increase for trips between 700 and 1,400 miles to a 28.3 percent increase for trips over 3,500 miles. Fares peaked in 2014 for all distance categories, then declined in 2015 due to lower fuel prices for carriers and competition from low-cost carriers. Average fares for trips between 700 and 1,400 miles as well as trips over 3,500 miles increased slightly in 2017, while the average fare for all other trips continued to decline from the 2014 peak.
Release
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Pocket Guide to Transportation 2019 is a quick reference guide to transportation statistics. This popular pocket reference provides the latest transportation statistics at your fingertips in a new web app, an updated mobile app, and the classic printed publication. It covers data on various aspects of transportation including major trends, infrastructure, moving people and goods, safety, system use and performance, the economy, and the environment.
The Winter 2019 update to the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) was released with two new datasets, nine revised datasets, 15 vector tile services, and faster web services for all NTAD datasets.
National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data was updated. NTS, updated quarterly, includes a wide range of national transportation information. NTS consists of more than 260 tables of national data of which 58 were updated this quarter.
The release consists of U.S. carrier summary data and domestic route data through October and U.S. and foreign carrier international data through July.
Thursday, January 31, 2019 – The 23rd edition of the Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR), a congressionally-mandated report, is now available from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. TSAR 2018 presents key transportation indicators along with an overview of the transportation system. It also includes data and statistics on passenger travel, freight movement, transportation and the economy, system reliability, safety, energy use and environmental impacts.See
BTS Release Schedule
BTS Contact: Dave Smallen
202-366-5568
david.smallen@dot.gov
