IMAGES

  1. Annual Passengers on All U.S. Scheduled Airline Flights (Domestic

    airline travel by year

  2. Full Year 2022 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

    airline travel by year

  3. Airlines Travel Infographics. Stock Vector

    airline travel by year

  4. 2021 global air passenger totals show improvement from 2020, but still

    airline travel by year

  5. Top 100 Airlines 2024 United States

    airline travel by year

  6. 2021 global air passenger totals show improvement from 2020, but still

    airline travel by year

COMMENTS

  1. Full Year 2022 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

    For the full year 2022, January through December, U.S. airlines carried 853 million passengers (unadjusted), up from 658 million in 2021 and 388 million in 2020. Annual: Systemwide enplanements (853 million) were down 8% from the all-time annual high (928M) reached in 2019. Domestic enplanements (751M) were down 8% from the all-time annual high ...

  2. World air passenger traffic evolution, 1980-2020

    World air passenger traffic evolution, 1980-2020. IEA. Licence: CC BY 4.0. International Civil Aviation Organization (2020). ICAO Economic Impact Analysis of COVID-19 on Civil Aviation. a) Historical figures are subject to revision and estimates for 2020 will be updated with the evolving situation; and b) For latest update please refer to ICAO ...

  3. Travel Numbers

    Airports & Airlines; Schedule; FAQ; Trusted Traveler Programs; Passenger Volumes; Travel Tips. Travel Checklist; FAQ; TSA checkpoint travel numbers (current year versus prior year/same weekday) Passenger travel numbers are updated Monday through Friday by 9 a.m. Travel numbers during holiday weeks though may be slightly delayed.

  4. Air Traffic By The Numbers

    Air Traffic By The Numbers. Every day, FAA 's Air Traffic Organization ( ATO) provides service to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. With an airspace system as vast and complex as ours, it is helpful to have an easy-to-reference source for relevant facts and information.

  5. Passenger airlines in the U.S.

    The United States has the world's second-largest air travel ... from 22.4 billion U.S. dollars to only nine billion U.S. dollars that year. 2021 brought a fresh breath of air to the industry. The ...

  6. 2019 Traffic Data for U.S. Airlines and Foreign Airlines U.S. Flights

    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: 1,053 million passengers, up 3.9% from 2018 (1,014M)Domestic: 811 million passengers, up 4.3% from 2018 (778M)International: 241 million ...

  7. Number of air travel trips per capita

    Licenses: All visualizations, data, and articles produced by Our World in Data are open access under the Creative Commons BY license.You have permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited.

  8. Airline industry worldwide

    Published by Statista Research Department , Jun 28, 2024. The number of flights performed globally by the airline industry has increased steadily since the early 2000s and reached 38.9 million in ...

  9. Airline industry

    Global air traffic - scheduled passengers 2004-2022. In 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the estimated number of scheduled passengers boarded by the global airline industry amounted to just ...

  10. Full-Year 2021 and December 2021 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

    BTS 12-22 U.S. airlines carried 674 million passengers (not seasonally adjusted) in 2021, 82.5% more than in 2020 (369 million, unadjusted). U.S. airline passenger enplanements in 2021 remained 27.3% below pre-pandemic 2019's 927 million (unadjusted). System-wide 2021 enplanements comprised 612 million passengers on domestic flights and 62 million passengers on international flights ...

  11. Number of Flights Worldwide in 2024: Passenger Traffic, Behaviors, and

    2020 was the worst year in history in terms of air travel demand, with the rate for international travel dropping by 75.6% and domestic travel by 48.8% (IATA, 2021). Furthermore, the numbers are down across all metrics, from air traffic to bookings. A slight recovery is expected in 2021 but the outlook is still dim due to the persistence of ...

  12. Air transport, passengers carried

    Air transport, passengers carried International Civil Aviation Organization, Civil Aviation Statistics of the World and ICAO staff estimates. License : CC BY-4.0

  13. Survey Predicts Air Travel Boom For 2024: What It Means For ...

    Airline Profits To Take Off. More people flying is good news for airlines. The IATA says passenger revenues are expected to reach $717 billion in 2024, up 12% from $642 billion in 2023. They ...

  14. Safety Record of U.S. Air Carriers

    The U.S. government began publishing statistics on the safety of commercial aviation in 1927. While 1978 legislation eliminated economic regulation of the U.S. airline industry, it left safety regulation very much in place. The following table depicts the safety record of U.S. airlines performing scheduled services worldwide, from 2000 to ...

  15. Air Travelers in America: Annual Survey

    68. 44. 2023. 86. n/a. 49. "Air Travelers in America" is A4A's annual survey, conducted by Ipsos, collecting vital statistics about air travel. The most recent such poll was conducted online between January 9-31, 2023, in which Ipsos interviewed roughly 11,000 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii.

  16. Summer Travel 2024: Record Air Travel, Fewer Cancellations, Better

    Year-to-date flight cancellation rate is just 1.4% during a record-breaking summer travel season WASHINGTON - Despite record-breaking levels of air travel this year, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) numbers show that the flight cancellation rate for the first half of 2024 was just 1.4% - nearly the lowest rate in over a decade.

  17. The Busiest Travel Days of the Year, According to TSA

    July 30: 2.793 million passengers. July 28: 2.785 million passengers. July 23: 2.789 million passengers. June 30: 2.884 million passengers (the new record for the busiest air travel day ever in the United States) June 16: 2.785 million passengers. For reference, the busiest travel day in all of 2019 was November 27, with 2.882 million passengers.

  18. 50 ways air travel has changed over the last 100 years

    Air travel was largely reserved for the rich and famous in the late 1920s, with just 6,000 Americans flying commercially in 1930, according to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. However, it would quickly become more popular, and four years later, 75 times the number of passengers would travel by air, USA Today reports.

  19. Airfare Inflation: Airline Ticket Prices (1964-2024)

    Prices for airline tickets fell by 5.1% over the year ending in June, following a 5.9% drop previously, according to data released July 11, 2024, by the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics ().The BLS surveys pricing on thousands of goods and services as a part of their Consumer Price Index (see CPI data), which is a measure of inflation in the United States at the consumer level.

  20. U.S. passenger-miles in air traffic 2021

    Air traffic growth - route & travel class 2014/2015; U.S. average passenger revenue - air traffic 1993-2020 ... The account requires an annual contract and will renew after one year to the regular ...

  21. Here's what it's like to fly on the busiest travel day of the year (so far)

    UP IN THE AIR — Flying on what the Federal Aviation Administration said was the busiest travel day of the year wasn't so bad. According to the FAA, 53,677 flights were scheduled for Thursday ...

  22. What share of global CO₂ emissions come from aviation?

    Non-CO 2 climate impacts mean aviation accounts for around 4% of global warming to date. While aviation accounts for around 2.5% of global CO 2 emissions, its overall contribution to climate change is higher.. Along with emitting CO 2 from burning fuel, planes also affect the concentration of other atmospheric gases and pollutants. They generate a short-term increase but a long-term decrease ...

  23. Which airports and airlines have been affected by the outages?

    Iberia Airlines, the flag carrier of Spain's airline, told CNN their systems started working again at 9:30 a.m. local time (3:30 a.m. ET), adding there were still some delays.

  24. Southwest Airlines to assign seats, ending 50+ year open-seat policy

    It's the end of an era at Southwest Airlines. After more than 50 years, the airline is getting rid of its open seating policy.. In a press release Thursday, the Dallas-based airline acknowledged ...

  25. Southwest Airlines to start assigning seats, breaking 50-year ...

    Southwest Airlines plans to drop its tradition of more than 50 years and start assigning seats and selling premium seating for customers who want more legroom. The airline said Thursday that it ...

  26. Summer travel boom not enough to fire up airline earnings

    Airline executives attributed the overcapacity to an overoptimistic view of travel demand, which by most standards has been robust. Passenger traffic in the U.S. is hitting records levels this year.

  27. Total air traffic passengers traveling to/from the U.S. 2022

    Total air traffic passengers traveling to/from the United States 2006-2022. Since 2006, the total number of air traffic passengers increased steadily. In 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it ...

  28. Southwest Airlines to assign seats, breaking 50-year tradition

    American cut its forecast of full-year earnings to between 70 cents and $1.30 per share, down from a previous prediction of $2.25 to $3.25 per share. Shares of the leading U.S. airlines rose after the opening bell Thursday. Southwest Airlines Co. gained 3% and American Airlines Group Inc., based in Fort Worth, Texas, rose 5% in late-morning ...

  29. It's the end of budget airlines as we know them

    On Thursday, Southwest Airlines announced the end of its open-seating policy, a 50-year practice of letting passengers choose their seats based on their boarding order versus having them assigned.

  30. Parents of unaccompanied minors stranded by Delta scramble to find

    Then the 12-year-old got one round after another of bad news from Delta Air Lines in ... Delta said the airline put an embargo on travel by solo kids "to protect minors from being separated from ...