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BTS 2-Week Outlook

 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases

Oct. 22 through Nov. 1

Upcoming from Oct. 22

Wednesday, Oct. 24 – 11:00am ET

North American Transborder Freight Data, August 2018

Date TBD –

Airline On-Time/Tarmac Data, August 2018

 

Previously Released

Oct. 9 – Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, August 2018

 

Oct. 11 – Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), August 2018

 

Oct. 12 – U.S. Airline Traffic Data, Sept 2018 estimate based on July reported data

 

Oct 16 – Average Domestic Air Fares, Second Quarter 2018

 

Oct. 18 – U.S. Passenger Airline Employment, August 2018

 

 

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

 

  • North American Transborder Freight Data, August 2018
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 - 11:00am ET
The release summarizes the value of freight transported in August by truck, rail and other modes between the U.S. and Canada and the U.S. and Mexico with the top states, ports and commodities. Last month, BTS reported that the top two modes in July for those freight movements were truck and rail. Trucks moved freight valued at $62.7 billion, up 11.2 percent compared to July 2017. Rail moved freight valued at $14.4 billion, up 6.8 percent during the same period.
July 2018 TransB

 

  • Air Travel Consumer Report: August 2018 Numbers
Date TBD
This releases consists on U.S. airline domestic monthly on-time performance, cancellations, tarmac data and mishandled baggage reports released in coordination with the Department of Transportation's release of the October Air Travel Consumer Report. From the previous month's release, in July 2018, marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 76.0 percent, down slightly from the 76.4 percent on-time rate in June 2018.The marketing carriers include branded code-share partners of mainline carriers. Also in July 2018, reporting carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 75.9 percent, down from the 76.6 percent on-time rate in June 2018 and down from 76.9 percent in July 2017.
July 2018 actr

 

BTS Previously

 

BTS has released the following:

 

  • Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, August 2018
Oct. 9
U.S. airlines August employment (719,623) total full-time and part-time)), up 0.4pct from July, up 2.9pct from August 2017 (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.

 

  • Transportation Services Index (TSI), August 2018
Oct. 11
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.1 percent in August from July, rising after a one month decline.  The index rose 4.6 percent from August 2017. The August Freight TSI was the third highest index level on record but was 0.7 percent below the all-time high level in June 2018 
TSI Aug 2018

 

  • Estimated Airline Traffic Data, September 2018
Oct. 12
U.S. airlines carried an estimated 75.8 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers, seasonally-adjusted, in September 2018, up 0.3 percent from the August estimate. The air traffic estimate released is a statistical estimate based on U.S. airlines reported data through July. Based on the BTS estimates for August and September and reported data through July, the 75.8 million passengers in September would be a seasonally-adjusted all-time high and the eighth consecutive monthly increase. In unadjusted reported data for July, systemwide, domestic and international enplanements all reached all-time highs for any month.
Release
Data  
Sep Air Traffic

 

  • Average Air Fares, 2nd Quarter 2018The second quarter
Oct. 16
2018 average domestic itinerary air fare of $349 was the lowest second-quarter fare since the Bureau of Transportation Statistics began collecting such records in 1995 and the second lowest of any quarter. 
Release
2q 2018 air fare

 

  • Passenger Airline Employment, August 2018
Oct. 18
BTS reported that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.6 percent more workers in August 2018 than in August 2017:
    • The second highest monthly full-time equivalent (FTE) employment total (439,615 FTEs) since November 2004 (439,776 FTEs).
    • The 58th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

        

Aug FTE

 

See BTS Release Schedule

 

 

 

BTS Contact: Dave Smallen

202-366-5568

david.smallen@dot.gov

 

 


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