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BTS 2-Week Outlook

Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases

March 2-13

Upcoming from March 2

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 11:00am ET
Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, January 2020

 

Monday, March 9, 2020 - 11:00am ET
North American Freight Data, Annual 2019

 

Thursday, March 10, 2020 - 11:00am ET
Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, January 2020

 

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 10:00am ET
Transportation Services Index, January 2020

 

Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 11:00am ET
Airline Traffic Data, February 2020 Estimated, December 2019 Reported

 

 

Previously Released

February 19 - Airline On-Time/Tarmac Times, December 2019

February 19 - Passenger Airline Employment, December 2019

February 25 - North American Freight Data, December 2019

 

 

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

 

  • Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, January 2020
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 11:00am ET
Previous release: U.S. airlines December fuel cost was $2.00/gal, up 1 cent from November 2019 ($1.99) and down 6 cents from December 2018 ($2.06). 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
Monday, March 9, 2020 - 11:00am ET
This release provides an annual summary of North American Transborder freight by mode. In the previous release, BTS reported that trucks were the most heavily utilized mode in 2018 for moving goods to and from both Canada and Mexico, carrying 63% of the freight transported. Trucks accounted for $772 billion of the $1.2 trillion in freight flows with Canada and Mexico in 2018. Rail accounted for $179 billion, almost 15%.

 

Tranborder 2017-2018

 

 

 

  • Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, January 2020
Thursday, March 10, 2020 - 11:00am ET
Previous release: U.S. airline 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.

 

 

  • Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), January 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 10:00am 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 December, the Freight TSI fell 0.9% from revised November, declining to lowest level since August 2018. The December year-end index was down 0.8% in one year, up 2% in two years, up almost 9% in three years

 

TSI Dec 2019 

   

 

  • Airline Traffic Data, February 2020 estimate, December 2019 reported
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 11:00am ET
BTS estimates of air traffic data for January and Februarybased on reported data through December. 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 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.

 

AIr Traffic Jan 2020 EST

 

             

 

 

BTS Previously

 

BTS has released the following:

  • Air Travel Consumer Report: December 2019, Full Year 2019 Numbers
Released February 19
For the full year 2019, marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 79.0%, a slightly lower rate than 79.2% in 2018. For the full year 2019, marketing carriers canceled 1.9% of their scheduled domestic flights, compared to a rate of 1.7% in 2018.

ATCR JAN -DEC 2019

           

 

  • Passenger Airline Employment, December 2019
Released February 19
BTS reported that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 3.1% more workers in December 2019 than in December 2018.
  • December’s 453,976 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) was the highest monthly FTE total since March 2003 (458,598 FTEs).
  • December was the 74th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.
Release                      

Airline Employment Dec 2019

 

   

       

 

  • North American Freight Data, December 2019
Released February 25
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 December 2019:
  • Total Transborder Freight: $3 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 4.0% compared to December 2018
  • Most-used mode: Truck moved $2 billion of freight, down 0.3% compared to December 2018 
  • Second most-used mode: Rail moved $4 billion of freight, up 1.9% compared to December 2018 

 

   

Transborder Dec 2019

 

 

 

 

See BTS Release Schedule

 

 

BTS Contact: Dave Smallen
202-366-5568