BTS 2-Week Outlook
Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases
February 18-28
Upcoming from February 18
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 11:00am ET
Airline On-Time/Tarmac Data, Full Year and December 2019
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 2:00pm ET
Passenger Airline Employment, December 2019
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:00am ET
North American Freight Data, December 2019
Previously Released
February 4 - Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, December 2019
February 6 - Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, December 2019
February 12 - Transportation Services Index, December 2019
February 13 - Airline Traffic Data, January 2020 Estimated, November 2019 Reported
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:
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Air Travel Consumer Report: December 2019 Numbers
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 11:00am ET
This release consists on U.S. airline domestic monthly on-time performance, cancellations, tarmac data, mishandled baggage released in coordination with the Department of Transportation’s release of the Air Travel Consumer Report. From the previous month’s release, in November 2019, reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 84.4%, up from both the 82.2% on-time rate in October 2019 and 79.7% in November 2018. For the first 11 months of 2019, the reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 79.0%, down slightly from 79.1% for the same period in 2018. Reporting marketing carriers canceled 0.8% of their scheduled domestic flights, lower than the rate of 0.9% in October 2019 and the rate of 1.1% in November 2018. The marketing carriers include branded code-share partners of mainline carriers.
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Passenger Airline Employment, December 2019
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 2:00pm 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 2.9% more workers in November 2019 than in November 2019. November’s 452,668 full-time equivalents (FTEs) was the highest employment total for any month since March 2003 (458,598 FTEs) and was the 73rd consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.
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North American Transborder Freight Data, December 2019
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 11:00am ET
The release summarizes the monthly value of freight transported by truck, rail and other modes between the U.S. and Canada and the U.S. and Mexico with the top states, ports and commodities. Previously, BTS reported that the value of total Transborder freight in November 2019 was $99 billion, down 3.9% compared to November 2018. Truck moved $63 billion or 63% and rail moved $14 billion or 14%.
BTS Previously
BTS has released the following:
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Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, December 2019
February 4
U.S. airlines December fuel cost was $2.00/gal, up one cent from November 2019 ($1.99) and down 6 cents from December 2018 ($2.05). 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.
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Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, December 2019
February 6
U.S. airlines industry December employment (749,965 total full-time and part-time) was up 0.2% from November 2019 and up 2.8% from December 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.
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Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), December 2019
February 12
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, fell 0.9% in December from November, falling for the second consecutive month. For the year, the index fell 0.8% from December 2018 to December 2019, the first annual decline since 2015. The decline in 2019 followed a rise of 2.9% from December 2017 to December 2018.
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Airline Traffic Data, Estimated January 2020 Air Traffic
February 13
U.S. airlines carried an estimated 78.6 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in January 2020, reaching a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, according to the BTS first estimate, up 0.1% from the December second estimate. BTS estimated 68.9 million domestic passengers and 9.7 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in January. The domestic passenger numbers were a seasonally-adjusted all-time high.
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