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 April 1 through April 12 Upcoming from April 1 Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 11:00 am ET Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, February 2019   Monday, April 8, 2019 - 11:00am ET Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, February 2019   Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 11:00 am ET North American Freight Data, January 2019   Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 11:30 am ET Transportation Services Index, February 2019   Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 11:00 am ET Airline Traffic Data, March 2019 Estimated, January 2019 Reported   Previously Released March 19 - Passenger Airline Employment, January 2019 March 21 - U.S. and Foreign Airline Annual Traffic, 2018 Reported March 26 - North American Freight Data, Annual 2018 March 30 - Airline On-Time Tarmac Data, January 2019   The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:   Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, February 2019 Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 11:00am ET Previous release: U.S. airlines January fuel cost was $1.91/gal, down 15 cents from December 2018 ($2.06) and down 11 cents from January 2018 ($2.02). It was the lowest cost/gallon since December 2017 ($1.91) and down 44 cents from October 2018 ($2.35). 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 2019 Monday, April 8, 2019 - 11:00am ET Previous release: U.S. airlines January employment (730,247 total full-time and part-time)), up 0.1pct from December 2018 and up 3.8pct from January 2018 (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   North American Transborder Freight Data, January 2019 Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 11:00am ET The release summarizes the value of freight transported in January 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 top two modes in December for those freight movements were truck and rail. Trucks moved freight valued at $57.4 billion, up 1.0 percent compared to December 2017. Rail moved freight valued at $14.2 billion, up 4.1 percent during the same period. This release was delayed due to the appropriations lapse at the Census Bureau, which provides the data to BTS. Previous release TransBorder Freight Data                    Transportation Services Index (TSI), February 2019 Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 11:30am 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, BTS reported that the Freight TSI rose 0.4 percent in January from December, rising after a one-month decline but increasing for the fifth out of the last six months. For the year from January 2018, the index rose 4.7 percent compared to 5.3 percent for the previous 12-month period. Previous release  Transportation Services Index background and data             Airline Traffic Data, March 2019 estimate, January 2019 reported Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 11:00am ET BTS estimates of air traffic data for February and March based on reported data through January. Estimates are for U.S. airlines monthly passengers, revenue passenger-miles, available seat-miles and load factor for systemwide, domestic and international. Numbers are seasonally-adjusted and unadjusted. In the previous release, U.S. airlines were estimated to have carried 76.0 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers, seasonally-adjusted, in February 2019, up 0.6 percent from the January second estimate. The estimate of a February enplanement total of 76.0 million would be a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high monthly total. Previous release Data                 BTS Previously   BTS has released the following:   Passenger Airline Employment, January 2019 March 18 BTS reported that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.8 percent more workers in January 2019 than in January 2018: January's 441,783 full-time equivalents (FTE) was the highest January employment total since January 2003 (466,881 FTEs). January was the 63rd consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year. Release Database           U.S. and Foreign Airline Annual Traffic, 2018 Reported Feb. 14 U.S. airlines and foreign airlines serving the U.S. carried an all-time high of 1.0 billion systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in 2018, 4.8 percent more than the previous record high of 965.4 million reached in 2017. The year-over-year systemwide increase resulted from a 4.9 percent rise in the number of passengers on domestic flights (777.9 million passengers in 2018) and 4.4 percent growth in passengers on U.S. and foreign airlines' flights to and from the U.S. (233.6 million passengers in 2018. Release Data           North American Freight Data, Annual 2018 March 26 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 2018: Most-used mode: Truck moved $772 billion of freight, up 7.1 percent compared to 2017  Second mode: Rail moved $179 billion of freight, up 2.7 percent compared to 2017 Release TransBorder Freight Data                 Air Travel Consumer Report: January 2019 Numbers March 29 In January 2019, marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 78.4 percent, down from both the 80.0 percent on-time rate in December 2018 and from 79.4 percent in January 2018. The marketing carriers canceled 3.1 percent of their scheduled domestic flights, a higher rate than 1.2 percent in December 2018 and equal to 3.1 percent in January 2018. 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Three teens charged in Malta for taking control of ship

The Refugee Brief, 1 April 2019

By Kristy Siegfried | 1 April, 2019 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Three teens charged in Malta for taking control of ship. Three teenagers were charged in a Maltese court on Saturday with taking control of a small commercial tanker that had rescued them and 105 other refugees and migrants off the coast of Libya last week. They were accused of using force and intimidation against the crew to change the ship’s course to Europe. Under Maltese law, unlawfully taking control of a ship is punishable with prison terms of between seven and 30 years . The suspects pleaded not guilty and were placed in detention pending trial. The accused are 15, 16 and 19 years old – one of them from Ivory Coast and the other two from Guinea. A spokesperson from the International Chamber of Shipping told AP that the episode had brought into sharp focus the need for high-level action to ensure commercial ships that rescue refugees and migrants receive immediate assistance from the coast guards of nearby countries. Humanitarian emergency unfolding at Syria’s Al-Hol camp. AFP reports from Al-Hol camp for displaced people in north-eastern Syria, where the population has swelled from 35,000 to more than 73,000 since February as the final territories under ISIL’s control in the region have fallen. Some 19,000 people are sheltering in large tents and communal areas while they wait for the camp to be expanded. The World Food Programme’s Syria spokesperson told AFP there was a lack of space and proper medical facilities to treat injuries and diseases, while aid agencies say that some 30 per cent of children under the age of five at the camp are suffering from acute malnutrition. The UN announced on Sunday that it has allocated US$4.3 million from the Syria Humanitarian Fund to ramp up aid delivery at Al-Hol. WHAT’S ON OUR RADAR Fresh wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Following a spate of attacks on migrants and refugees in Durban over the last week that has left three people dead , South Africa’s foreign minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, said she had organized a meeting with African ambassadors for today. The attacks have mainly targeted foreign-owned businesses. Many small shops have been looted and burned, and foreign nationals have reportedly been sheltering at local mosques and police stations. Politicians, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, condemned the violence over the weekend, but some commentators have said a speech Ramaphosa made in January, in which he promised a crackdown on illegally operated businesses, may have played a role in inciting the attacks on foreign shopkeepers. Aid agencies express concern about continued violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. In a joint statement today, 15 international NGOs expressed their deep concern about continued fighting between Myanmar’s security forces and the Arakan Army. The statement notes that “the conflict is causing civilian casualties, displacing communities, and worsening the already precarious humanitarian situation in central and northern Rakhine State”. The NGOs said the impact of the conflict had been compounded by the Myanmar government’s restrictions on humanitarian access to several conflict-affected areas. According to the statement, at least 95,000 people living in those areas are no longer accessing a number of basic and essential services. How a school poetry club helped refugee children to find their voice. Many of the pupils where Kate Clancy teaches at a multicultural school in Oxford are refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere who have experienced loss and trauma. In this moving extract from her new book, Clancy recounts how joining her poetry club has helped some of them to process their loss and listen to their inner voices. GET INSPIRED After moving to the United States from China when he was five years old, Tony Xu watched as his mother ran a Chinese restaurant while saving up for medical school. Xu went on to start the food delivery app, DoorDash, and he’s now helping other newcomers to the US through an initiative called Kitchens Without Borders . This video mini-series highlights 10 refugee- and migrant-owned restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area that are getting premium placement in the DoorDash app. DID YOU KNOW? A survey of attitudes in 14 European Union countries found that people in southern and eastern countries were more concerned about emigration than immigration.

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