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BTS 8-13
Friday, February 22, 2013
Contact: Dave Smallen
Tel: 202-366-5568 BTS Releases November 2012 Airline Traffic Data;
System Passengers Up 0.8% from November 2011 The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines carried 58.7 million scheduled systemwide passengers in November 2012, 0.8 percent more than in November 2011. The systemwide increase was the result of a 0.4 percent increase in the number of domestic passengers (51.8 million) and a 4.3 percent increase in international passengers (6.9 million). BTS, a part of the Department’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration, reported that U.S. airlines carried 0.9 percent more total system passengers during the first 11 months of 2012 (677.7 million) than during the same period in 2011. Domestically, U.S. airlines carried 591.0 million passengers, up 0.7 percent from 2011. Internationally, they carried 86.7 million passengers, up 2.0 percent from 2011. See Tables 2, 8 and 14 of Air Traffic Press Releases for previous-year data. Additional traffic data can be found on the BTS Airlines and Airports page. Click on a link in the Quick Links box on the right. For more historical data, see Traffic on the BTS website. Load Factor and Capacity The international load factor in November 2012 rose 1.5 points from November 2011 to reach a record for the month of November (79.5). The load factor is calculated by dividing production by capacity. Production, measured by revenue passenger-miles (RPMs), rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier, while capacity, measured in available seat-miles (ASMs), increased at a slightly slower rate of 0.9 percent (Table 13). The domestic load factor in November 2012 (82.8) declined from November 2011 (83.6) as a result of the year-to-year growth in capacity (1.6 percent) outpacing the growth in RPMs (0.8 percent) (Table 7). Systemwide capacity increased 1.4 percent compared to a 1.3 percent increase in RPMs with the load factor remaining level with November 2011 at 81.9 (Table 1). See Tables 1, 7 and 13 of Air Traffic Press Releases for previous-year data. Top Airlines In November 2012, Delta Air Lines carried more system passengers than any other U.S. airline and Southwest Airlines carried the most domestic passengers. United Airlines, following its merger with Continental Airlines, carried the most international passengers. The top 10 U.S. airlines in terms of passengers carried 80.2 percent of systemwide passengers, up from 75.4 percent carried by the U.S. airlines that were in the top 10 in November 2011. See Air Traffic Release for summary tables and additional data. ### You are subscribed to DOT News for Department of Transportation. This information has recently been updated, and is now available.
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