Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

BTS Data Release: U.S. Cargo and Passenger Airlines Lost 4,423 Jobs in February 2025 https://lnkd.in/e_nrackH U.S. airline industry (passenger and cargo airlines combined) employment decreased to 1,004,718 workers in February 2025, 4,423 (0.44%) less workers than in January 2025 (1,009,141). U.S. scheduled-service passenger airlines employed 544,156 workers in February 2025, or 54% of the industry-wide total. Passenger airlines gained 269 employees in February 2025. U.S. cargo airlines employed 456,352 workers in February 2025, or 46% of the industry-wide total. Cargo carriers lost 4,677 employees in February.

BTS Data Spotlight: Live Monitoring of Tanker Vessel Calls at U.S. Ports https://lnkd.in/e3YdkTgS In 2024, crude oil was imported and exported via vessel at 34 U.S. seaports. There were nine ports located on the East Coast (30.3 million short tons), 14 ports on the Gulf Coast (274.8 million short tons), 10 ports on the West Coast (52 million short tons), and on port in Alaska (1.1 million short tons). The top-three ports were Corpus Christi, TX; Houston, TX; and Long Beach, CA [U.S. Census Bureau 2025]. On Friday, April 4, 2025, there were 15 tanker vessels anchored off the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles (Figure 1), with five tanker vessels at berth.

BTS Data Release: Transportation Producer Price Index – March 2025 https://lnkd.in/e4689iST The Producer Price Index (PPI) tracks the change in the costs faced by producers purchasing transportation services and industries producing them. PPI measures inflation from the perspective of costs to industry or producers of products. The PPI shows that prices increased for freight transportation and equipment 1.6% in March 2025 from March 2024.

BTS Data Release: January 2025 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 1.0% from January 2024 https://lnkd.in/eXXpQRgs U.S. airlines carried 70.7 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in January 2025. When adjusted for seasonality, January enplanements are down 2.3% from December and down 2.3% from the all-time high reached in December 2024. BTS reported 60.4 million domestic passengers and 10.4 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in January, not adjusting for seasonality.

https://lnkd.in/eAJrx4_j BTS Data Release: February 2025 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Up 0.9% from the January 2025 and Up 0.9% from February 2024 TSI, which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.9% in February from January, rising after a one-month decline.

BTS Data Release: Motor Fuel Prices – March 2025 https://lnkd.in/dtDeQ6hB In March 2025, the average price for regular motor gasoline was $3.10; down 0.8% from February 2025, and down 9.6% from March 2024. Diesel no. 2 rose to $3.59 in March 2025; down 2.4% from February 2025, and down 10.9% from March 2024. By region, the average price for regular motor gasoline in March 2025 was: - West Coast: $4.11 - Central Atlantic: $3.08 - Rocky Mountain: $3.02 - Midwest: $2.95 - New England: $2.95 - Lower Atlantic: $2.89

https://lnkd.in/e7AtGkET BTS Data Release: U.S. Airlines’ February 2025 Fuel Cost per Gallon up 1.1% from January 2025; Aviation Fuel Consumption up 2.0% from Pre-Pandemic February 2020 The cost per gallon of aviation fuel in February 2025 ($2.45) was up 3 cents (1.1%) from January 2025 ($2.42) and up $0.64 (35.4%) from February 2020. Total February 2025 fuel expenditure ($3.32B) was down 5.6% from January 2025 ($3.52B) and up 38.1% from pre-pandemic February 2020. In February 2025, U.S. scheduled service airlines used 1.356 billion gallons of fuel, 6.7% less fuel than in January 2025 (1.453 billion gallons) and 2.0% more than in pre-pandemic February 2020.

BTS Data Release: BTS Updates National Transportation Statistics (NTS) 3/31/2025 https://lnkd.in/eY9i99rx Today, BTS released the monthly update to NTS, a guide to historical national-level transportation trends. Each month, BTS updates NTS with transportation statistics from across the following areas: - The extent, condition, use, and performance of the physical transportation network and infrastructure; - Safety information including accidents, crashes, fatalities, and injuries for each transportation mode and for hazardous materials movement; - Transportation’s impact on the economy, including gross domestic product, employment by industry and occupation, and transportation-related consumer and Government expenditures; and - Transportation’s impact on energy use.

BTS Data Release: North American Transborder Freight rose 8.2% in January 2025 from January 2024 In January 2025, $134.4 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, an 8.2% increase from January 2024. - Between the U.S. and Canada: $64.8B - Between the U.S. and Mexico: $69.6B - Trucks: $87.6B - Railways: $15.2B - Pipelines: $10.4B - Vessels: $8.2B - Air: $6.1B https://lnkd.in/esz7hAET

BTS Data Release: TransBorder Freight Annual Report 2024 U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico consistently facilitate over $1 trillion in cross-border trade annually. In 2024 the value of total U.S.-international trade was $5.3 trillion, of which U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico comprised 30.0 percent. In 2024, U.S. freight flows with Canada and Mexico equaled $1.6 trillion dollars, a 1.8% increase over 2023. https://lnkd.in/ex33ZvCq