BTS Releases December 2010 Airline Traffic Data
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today reported in a release of preliminary data that U.S. airlines carried 58.6 million scheduled domestic and international passengers in December 2010. This is a 2.9 percent increase from December 2009. The December 2010 passenger total was 2.1 percent above that of two years ago in December 2008 but still remained 3.6 percent below the pre-recession level of 60.8 million in December 2007.
BTS, a part of DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration, also reported that U.S. airlines carried 2.6 percent more domestic passengers in December 2010 than in December 2009. The number of international passengers on U.S. carriers in December 2010 increased 4.8 percent over December 2009. The December 2010 load factors of 80.7 percent systemwide and 80.8 percent domestic were the highest recorded for any December.
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 full year 2010, the number of scheduled domestic and international passengers on U.S. airlines increased 2.4 percent from 2009 to 720.4 million. The number of passengers declined 3.1 percent from the full year 2008 to the full year 2010.
U.S. airlines carried 1.9 percent more domestic passengers and 5.9 percent more international passengers in the full year 2010 than in 2009.
See BTS Air Traffic Release for summary tables and additional data.
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