Wed, Feb 17, 2010
System Traffic Up 1.6 Percent from November 2008
The number of scheduled domestic and international passengers on
U.S. airlines in November 2009 increased by 1.6 percent from
November 2008, increasing by 0.8 million to 54.9 million, the
Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS) reported Tuesday. November was the second month in the
last three to show an increase from 2008 but last year's numbers
were already reduced from 2007. The November 2009 passenger
total was 11.3 percent below November 2007.
BTS, a part of DOT's Research and Innovative Technology
Administration, in a release of preliminary data, reported a
record-high November passenger load factor of 78.9 percent.
Airlines reduced capacity in November from a year earlier by 3.5
percent, measured by available seat-miles, contributing to the
November load factor record.
U.S. airlines carried 2.1 percent more domestic passengers than in
November 2008. International passengers on U.S. carriers decreased
2.3 percent. The domestic load factor of 79.2 percent in
November 2009 was the highest ever for the month of November.
For the first 11 months of 2009, the number of scheduled
domestic and international passengers on U.S. airlines declined by
5.7 percent from the same period in 2008, dropping to 647.0
million, 38.9 million fewer than a year earlier, and the lowest
January-to-November total since 2004.
U.S. airlines carried 5.5 percent fewer domestic passengers and
6.8 percent fewer international passengers in the first 11 months
of 2009 than during the same period in 2008.
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