BTS 2-Week Outlook: Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases

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View it as a Web page.   BTS 2-Week Outlook Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases March 30-April 10 Upcoming from March 30 Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 11:00am ET Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, February 2020   Monday, April 6, 2020 - 11:00am ET Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, February 2020   Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - 10:00am ET Transportation Services Index, February 2020   Previously Released March 17 - Passenger Airline Employment, January 2020 March 18 - Airline On-Time/Tarmac Times, January 2020 March 19 - U.S. and Foreign Airline Annual Traffic, 2019 Reported March 25 - North American Freight Data, January 2020 March 26 - U.S. Airline Traffic Data (Preliminary), January 2020     The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:   Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, February 2020 Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 11:00am ET Previous release: U.S. airlines January fuel cost was $1.98/gal, down 2 cents from December 2019 ($2.00), up 7 cents from January 2019 ($1.91). Industry summary of airline fuel consumption, total fuel cost and price paid per gallon are available on the database. Individual airline numbers through September are available on the BTS website.     Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, February 2020 Monday, April 6, 2020 - 11:00am ET Previous release: U.S. airline industry January 2020 employment (747.370 total full-time and part-time) was down 0.3% from December 2019 and up 2.2% from January 2019 (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. Database     Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), February 2020 Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - 10:00am ET The Freight TSI measures the month-to-month changes in for-hire freight shipments by mode of transportation. The Passenger TSI measures the month-to-month changes in travel that involves the services of the for-hire passenger transportation sector. In the previous release for January, the Freight TSI was unchanged in January from December. From January 2019 to January 2020, the index fell 1.0% compared to a rise of 5.5% from January 2018 to January 2019 and a rise of 6.0% from January 2017 to January 2018. Previous release Transportation Services Index background and data       BTS Previously   BTS has released the following:     Passenger Airline Employment, January 2020 Released March 17 BTS reported that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.5% more workers in January 2020 than in January 2019. January's 452,933 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) was down from the previous month's employment total in December 2019 (453,976 FTEs) but was the highest FTE total for the month of January since 2003 (466,881 FTEs).   January was the 75th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year. Release                       Database               Air Travel Consumer Report: January 2020 Numbers Released March 18 In January 2020, reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 84.6%, up from both the 78.2% on-time rate in December 2019 and 78.4% in January 2019. Reporting marketing carriers canceled 1.3% of their scheduled domestic flights, a higher rate than 1.1% in December 2019 but lower than 3.1% in January 2019. Release Air Travel Consumer Report                U.S. and Foreign Airline Annual Traffic, 2019 Reported Released March 19 U.S. airlines and foreign airlines serving the U.S. carried an all-time high of 1.1 billion systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in 2019, 3.9% more than the previous annual record high of 1.0 billion reached in 2018. Systemwide: 1,014 million passengers, up 3.9% from 2018 (1,053M) Domestic: 811 million passengers, up 4.3% from 2018 (778M) International: 241 million passengers, up 2.4% from 2018 (236M) Release Data              North American Freight Data, January 2020 Released March 25 BTS reported that truck was the most used mode for shipping freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in January 2020: Total Transborder Freight: $1 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 1.5% compared to January 2019 Most-used mode: Truck moved $1 billion of freight, down 3.2% compared to January 2019  Second most-used mode: Rail moved $4 billion of freight, up 3.9% compared to January 2019  Release TransBorder Freight Data     U.S. Airline Traffic Data (Preliminary), January 2020 Released March 26 U.S. airlines carried 5.6% more scheduled service passengers in January 2020 than in January 2019 based on numbers from the 25 airlines that carry 99% of the total passengers  Total: 70.5 million passengers in January 2020, up 5.6% from January 2019 (66.7M) Domestic: 61.4 million passengers in January 2020, up 6.2% from January 2019 (57.8M) International: 9.13 million passengers in January 2020, up 2.0% from January 2019 (8.95M) Release Data     See BTS Release Schedule     BTS Contact: Dave Smallen 202-366-5568 david.smallen@dot.gov     You are subscribed to DOT email updates. 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