BTS Releases July 2009 Airline Traffic Data; System Traffic Down 3.4 Percent from July 2008
The number of scheduled domestic and international passengers on U.S. airlines in July 2009 declined by 3.4 percent from July 2008, dropping by 2.4 million to 68.1 million, the Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today reported. July was the 16th consecutive month with a decrease in passengers from the prior year.
BTS, a part of DOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, in a release of preliminary data, reported that U.S. airlines carried 3.2 percent fewer domestic passengers than in July 2008. International passengers on U.S. carriers decreased 4.8 percent.
For the first seven months of 2009, the number of scheduled domestic and international passengers on U.S. airlines declined by 8.1 percent from the same period in 2008, dropping to 413.6 million, 36.5 million fewer than a year earlier, and the lowest January-to-July total since 2004.
U.S. airlines carried 8.0 percent fewer domestic passengers and 8.8 percent fewer international passengers in the first seven months of 2009 than during the same period in 2008.
See BTS Air Traffic Release for summary tables and additional data.
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