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U.S. Department of Transportation
April 27, 2006
U.S. airlines carried 4.6 percent more passengers and flew more flights during 2005 than they did during 2004 on both domestic and international flights from the United States, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported Thursday (April 27), in a release of preliminary data.
BTS, a part of DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), reported that the airlines carried 745.7 million passengers on their total systems during 2005, up from the 712.6 million carried in 2004. During the first nine months of 2005, U.S. airlines carried 5.9 percent more passengers than in the same period in 2004 while in the last three months they carried 0.7 percent more passengers than in 2004.
The passengers were carried on 11.0 million flights, up 1.0 percent from the 10.9 million flights operated in 2004.
In other total system comparisons from 2004 to 2005:
Revenue passenger miles, a measure of the number of passengers and the distance flown, were up 5.7 percent.
Available seat-miles, a measure of airline capacity using the number of seats and the distance flown, were up 2.9 percent.
Passenger load factor, passengers carried as a proportion of available seats, was up 2.1 load factor points.
Flight stage length, the average non-stop distance flown per departure, was up 2.1 percent.
Passenger trip length, the average distance flown per passenger, was up 1.0 percent.
Among U.S. airlines, American Airlines carried 98.1 million passengers on its system during 2005, the most of any airline. American Eagle Airlines was the fastest growing of the top 10 airlines, carrying 17.9 percent more passengers in 2005 than 2004, while United Airlines carried 5.7 percent fewer passengers, the biggest decline of any of the top 10 airlines.
Among airports, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the busiest U.S. airport during 2005, with 41.6 million domestic and international passenger boardings. Houston Bush Intercontinental was the fastest growing of the top 10 airports, with 9.9 percent more passenger boardings in 2005 than 2004, while Dallas-Fort Worth International, down 0.1 percent, was the only one of the top 10 airports with fewer boardings in 2005 than 2004.
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