Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases
U.S. Department of Transportation sent this bulletin at 04/15/2019 09:14 AM EDT |
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BTS 2-Week Outlook
Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases
April 15 through April 26
Upcoming from April 15
Monday, April 15, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Passenger Airline Employment, February 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Average Air Fares, 4th Quarter 2018
Date TBD
Airline On-Time/Tarmac Data, February 2019
Previously Released
April 3 - Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, February 2019
April 8 - Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, February 2019
April 9 - North American Freight Data, January 2019
April 10 - Transportation Services Index, February 2019
April 11 - Airline Traffic Data, March 2019 Estimated, January 2019 Reported
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:
- Passenger Airline Employment, January 2019
Monday, April 15, 2019 - 11:00am ET
The release details full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers for U.S. scheduled service passenger airlines. Previously, BTS reported that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.8% more workers in January 2019 than in January 2019. January’s 441,783 full-time equivalents (FTE), was the highest January employment total since January 2003 (466,881 FTEs) and was the 63rd consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.
- Average Air Fares, 2nd Quarter 2018
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 11:00am ET
This release consists of average domestic itinerary fares, both inflation-adjusted and unadjusted, derived from the Origin & Destination Survey, a 10% ticket sample. In the previous release, BTS reported that the third quarter 2018 average domestic itinerary air fare of $343 was the lowest inflation-adjusted quarterly fare since the Bureau of Transportation Statistics began collecting such records in 1995, down 0.4% from the previous low of $345 in the third quarter of 2017.
- Air Travel Consumer Report: February 2019 Numbers
Date TBD
This release consists on U.S. airline domestic monthly on-time performance, cancellations and tarmac data, released in coordination with the Department of Transportation’s release of the April Air Travel Consumer Report. From the previous month’s release, in January 2019 marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 78.4 percent, down from both the 80.0 percent on-time rate in December 2018 and from 79.4 percent in January 2018. The marketing carriers include branded code-share partners of mainline carriers.
BTS Previously
BTS has released the following:
- Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, February 2019
April 3
U.S. airlines February fuel cost was $1.98/gal, up 7 cents from January 2018 ($1.91) and down 5 cents from February 2018 ($2.03). 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
- Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, January 2019
April 8
U.S. airlines February employment (731,805 total full-time and part-time)), up 0.1pct from January and up 3.5pct from February 2018 (passenger+cargo). Monthly full-time and part-time employment statistics are 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.
- North American Freight Data, January 2019
April 9
BTS reported that truck was the most used mode for shipping freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in January 2019:
- Most-used mode: Truck moved $63.1 billion of freight, up 4.1 percent compared to January 2018
- Second mode: Rail moved $12.9 billion of freight, up 3.0 percent compared to January 2018
- Transportation Services Index (TSI), February 2019
April 10
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.
- Airline Traffic Data, March 2019 estimate, January 2019 reported
April 11
U.S. airlines carried an estimated 74.9 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in March 2019, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) first estimate, up 0.1% from the February second estimate. The BTS estimate of a March enplanement total of 74.9 million was down 0.5% from the all-time, seasonally-adjusted, reported high of 75.4 million reached in July 2018. The air traffic estimate released is a statistical estimate based on U.S. airlines reported data through January. In unadjusted reported data for January, systemwide, domestic and international enplanements all reached all-time highs for the month of January.
BTS Contact: Dave Smallen
202-366-5568
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