Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.   BTS 2-Week Outlook   Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases June 24 through July 5 Upcoming from June 24 Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 11:00am ET North American Freight Data, April 2019   Previously Released June 12 - Transportation Services Index, April 2019 June 13 - Airline Traffic Data, May 2019 Estimated, March 2019 Reported June 17 - Airline Financial Data, 1st Quarter 2018 June 18 - Passenger Airline Employment, April 2019 June 20 – Airline On-Time/Tarmac Data, April 2019   The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:     North American Transborder Freight Data, April 2019 Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 11:00am ET The release summarizes the value of freight transported in April 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. Previously, BTS reported that the value of total Transborder freight in March was $107 billion, up 1.4% compared to March 2018. Truck moved $67 billion or 63% and rail moved $16 billion or 15%. Previous release  TransBorder Freight Data                    BTS Previously   BTS has released the following:   Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), April 2019 June 12 The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 1.5% in April from March, rising for the second consecutive month. From March 2018 to March 2019, the index rose 2.8% compared to 7.9% for the previous year. The index reached its second highest all-time level in April. Release Transportation Services Index background and data             Airline Traffic Data, May 2019 estimate, March 2019 reported June 13 U.S. airlines carried an estimated 77.4 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in May 2019, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS) first estimate, up 0.2% from the April second estimate. the May enplanement total of 77.4 million was down 0.2% from the all-time, seasonally-adjusted, reported high of 77.6 million reached in March 2019. The air traffic estimate released is a statistical estimate based on U.S. airlines reported data through March. In unadjusted reported data for January, systemwide, domestic and international enplanements all reached all-time highs for the month of January. Release Data                 U.S. Airline Financial Data, First Quarter 2019 June 17 U.S. scheduled passenger airlines reported a first-quarter 2019 after-tax net profit of $2.1 billion, the 24th consecutive annual after tax profit, and a pre-tax operating profit of $3.3 billion, the 32nd consecutive quarterly pre-tax profit. Additional financial numbers for all airlines are available on the BTS financial databases. Release Airline Financial Databases            Passenger Airline Employment, April 2019 June 18 BTS reported that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.3% more workers in April 2019 than in April 2018: April's 446,323 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) was the highest employment total for any month since April 2003 (449,288 FTEs) April was the 66th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year. Release                       Database        Air Travel Consumer Report: April 2019 Numbers June 20 In April 2019, reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 79.8%, down from both the 80.9% on-time rate in March 2019 and from 81.3% in April 2018. The reporting marketing carriers canceled 2.4% of their scheduled domestic flights, up from both the rate of 2.0% in March 2019 and 1.1% in April 2018. Release Air Travel Consumer Report                See BTS Release Schedule     BTS Contact: Dave Smallen 202-366-5568 david.smallen@dot.gov     You are subscribed to DOT email updates. Subscriber Services: Manage Preferences Questions for BTS? Contact BTS  STAY CONNECTED             U.S. Department of Transportation | 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE | Washington DC 20590 | 202-385-HELP (4357)