Mon, Sep 20, 2010
System Traffic Up 2.3 Percent from June 2009
If the amount of airline traffic is an indication of economic
recovery, then it would appear that things are at least showing
some progress. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of
Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported in a release of
preliminary data Thursday that U.S. airlines carried 65.0 million
scheduled domestic and international passengers in June 2010. This
is a 2.3 percent increase from June 2009. But the June 2010
passenger total was still 4.4 percent below that of two years ago
in June 2008.
BTS, a part of DOT's Research and Innovative Technology
Administration, also reported that U.S. airlines carried 1.4
percent more domestic passengers in June 2010 than in June
2009. The number of international passengers on U.S. carriers
increased 8.4 percent over June 2009. The June 2010 load factors of
86.2 percent systemwide, 86.3 percent domestic and 85.9 percent
international were the highest recorded for any June.
Additional traffic numbers can be found on the BTS website in
the Airline Industry box. Click on a link in the column on
the right. For more historic numbers, see Traffic on the BTS
website.
For the first six months of 2010, the number of scheduled
domestic and international passengers on U.S. airlines increased
1.2 percent from the same period in 2009 to 349.5 million. The
number of passengers declined 8.0 percent from the first six months
of 2008 to the first six months of 2010.
U.S. airlines carried 0.7 percent more domestic passengers and 4.3
percent more international passengers in the first six months of
2010 than during the same period in 2009.
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