BTS Releases November 2011 Airline Traffic Data;

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BTS Releases November 2011 Airline Traffic Data;
System Traffic Down 0.1 Percent from November 2010


The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines carried 58.1 million scheduled domestic and international passengers in November 2011. The airlines carried 0.2 percent more domestic passengers and 1.9 percent fewer international passengers than in November 2010, resulting in a systemwide decrease of 0.1 percent. The November 2011 passenger total was 6.0 percent above that of two years ago in November 2009.
BTS, a part of DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration, also reported in a release of preliminary data the system load factor of 81.9 percent and the domestic load factor of 83.6 percent were record highs for the month of November.
U.S. airlines carried 671.1 million total system passengers during the first 11 months of 2011, up 1.4 percent from the same period in 2010. Domestically, they carried 586.1 million passengers, up 1.3 percent from 2010. Internationally, they carried 85.0 million passengers, up 1.9 percent from 2010. Systemwide, domestic and international totals were all the highest for January through November since 2008. See Tables 2, 8 and 14 of Air Traffic Press Releases for previous year numbers.
Additional traffic numbers can be found on the BTS website in the Airlines and Airports box. Click on a link in the column on the right. For more historic numbers, see Traffic on the BTS website.