BTS 2-Week Outlook: Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases
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BTS 2-Week Outlook
Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases
March 16-27
Upcoming from March 16
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - 11:00am ET
Passenger Airline Employment, January 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 11:00am ET
U.S. and Foreign Airline Annual Traffic, 2019 Reported
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 11:00am ET
North American Freight Data, January 2020
TBD: Airline On-Time/Tarmac Data
Previously Released
March 4 - Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, January 2020
March 9 - North American Freight Data, Annual 2019
March 10 - Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, January 2020
March 11 - Transportation Services Index, January 2020
March 12 - Airline Traffic Data, December 2019 Reported
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:
- Passenger Airline Employment, January 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 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 3.1% more workers in December 2019 than in December 2019. December’s 453,976 full-time equivalents (FTEs) was the highest employment total for any month since March 2003 (458,598 FTEs) and was the 74th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.
- U.S. and Foreign Airline Annual Traffic, 2019 Reported
Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 11:00am ET
This release provides annual total and international passenger and other traffic measures for U.S. airlines and foreign airlines serving the U.S. In the previous release, BTS reported that these airlines carried an all-time high of 1.0 billion systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in 2018, 4.8% more than the previous record high of 965.4 million reached in 2017.
- North American Transborder Freight Data, January 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 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 December 2019 was $96 billion, up 4.0% compared to December 2018. Truck moved $57 billion or 59% and rail moved $14 billion or 15%.
- Air Travel Consumer Report: January 2020 Numbers
Date TBD
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 December 2019, reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 78.2%, down from both the 84.4% on-time rate in November 2019 and 80.0% in December 2018. Reporting marketing carriers canceled 1.1% of their scheduled domestic flights, a higher rate than 0.8% in November 2019 but slightly lower than 1.2% in December 2018. For the full year 2019, the reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 79.0%, a slightly lower rate than 79.2% in 2018. Marketing carriers canceled 1.9% of their scheduled domestic flights in 2019, compared to a rate of 1.7% in 2018.The marketing carriers include branded code-share partners of mainline carriers.
BTS Previously
BTS has released the following:
- Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, January 2020
March 4
U.S. airlines January fuel cost was $1.98/gal, down 2 cents from December 2019 ($2.00), up 7 cents from January 2019 ($1.91)). 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.
- North American Freight Data, Annual 2019
March 6
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 2019:
- Total Transborder Freight: $1.2 trillion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, down 0.2% from 2018
- Most-used mode: Truck moved $772 billion of freight, virtually unchanged compared to 2018
- Second most-used mode: Rail moved $179 billion of freight, down 0.2% compared to 2018
- Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, January 2020
March 10
U.S. airlines industry January 2020 employment (747.370 total full-time and part-time) was down 0.3% from December 2019 and up 2.2% from January 2019 (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.
- Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), January 2020
March 11
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, was unchanged in January from December. From January 2019 to January 2020, the index fell 1.0% compared to a rise of 5.5% from January 2018 to January 2019 and a rise of 6.0% from January 2017 to January 2018.
- Airline Traffic Data, December 2019 reported
March 12
U.S. airlines carried 79.0 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in December 2019, reaching a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.9% from November. U.S. airlines carried 69.3 million domestic passengers and 9.70 million international passengers on flights in December. BTS withheld the scheduled release of estimated U.S. airlines’ traffic data for January and February because the estimates are statistical forecasts based on previous trends. The estimates do not account for the impact of the coronavirus.
BTS Contact: Dave Smallen
202-366-5568
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