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BTS 2-Week Outlook

 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases

May 13 through May 24

Upcoming from May 13

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Passenger Airline Employment, March 2019

 

Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Airline Traffic Data, April 2019 Estimated, February 2019 Reported

 

Date TBD
Airline On-Time/Tarmac/Mishandled Baggage/Denied Boardings Data, March 2019

 

Previously Released

May 1 - North American Freight Data, January 2019

May 6 - Airline Financial Data, Annual and 4th Quarter 2018

May 7 - Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, March 2019

May 8 - Transportation Services Index, March 2019

May 9 - Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, March 2019

 

 

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:

  • Passenger Airline Employment, March 2019
Wednesday, May 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 2.5% more workers in February 2019 than in February 2019. February’s 443,058 full-time equivalents (FTE), was the highest February employment total since February 2003 (460,852 FTEs) and was the 64th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.   

     

Passenger Airline

 

 

 

  • Airline Traffic Data, April 2019 estimate, February 2019 reported
Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 11:00am ET
BTS estimates of air traffic data for March and April based on reported data through February. 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 with the first estimate for March, U.S. airlines were estimated to have carried 74.9 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers, seasonally-adjusted, up 0.1 percent from the February second estimate.

 

Air Traffic

 

 

         

  • Air Travel Consumer Report: March 2019 Numbers
Date TBD
This release consists on U.S. airline domestic monthly on-time performance, cancellations, tarmac data, mishandled baggage and denied boardings released in coordination with the Department of Transportation’s release of the May Air Travel Consumer Report. From the previous month’s release, in February 2019 reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 73.8%, down from both the 78.4% on-time rate in January 2019 and from 78.9% in February 2018. The marketing carriers include branded code-share partners of mainline carriers. 

 

ATCR Mar 2019

 

 

 

BTS Previously

 

BTS has released the following:

 

  • North American Freight Data, February 2019
May 1
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 February 2019:
Transborder Freight: $94.2 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 0.2% compared to February 2018
Most-used mode: Truck moved $60.2 billion of freight, up 1.3% compared to February 2018
Second mode: Rail moved $13.0 billion of freight, down 4.2% compared to February 2018
 

Transborder Feb 2019

 

 

 

  • U.S. Airline Financial Data, Annual and Fourth-Quarter 2018
May 6
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. Additional financial numbers for all airlines are available on the BTS financial databases.

 

Air Financial     

 

 

  • 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 BTS website.

 

  • Transportation Services Index (TSI), March 2019
May 8
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.4% in March from February, rising after a one-month decline. The index rose 1.3% from March 2018 compared to an increase of 8.2% from March 2017 to March 2018. 

 

TSi Mar 2019

 

 

  • Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, March 2019
May 9
U.S. airlines March employment (733,824 total full-time and part-time)), up 0.3% from February and up 3.7% from March 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.

 

 

 

See BTS Release Schedule

 

 

 

BTS Contact: Dave Smallen
202-366-5568