June 2024 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 6.7% from the Same Month Last Year

U.S. airlines carried 89.7 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in June 2024, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, June enplanements are up 2.8% from May and reached a new all-time high the all-time high reached in June 2024.

BTS reported 77.2 million domestic passengers and 12.5 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in June, not adjusting for seasonality.

U.S. airline traffic reports are filed monthly with BTS. See the tables that accompany this release on the BTS website for summary data since 2016 (Tables 1-24) and complete data since 2000.

Two measures of U.S. airlines passenger enplanements

June seasonally adjusted

• Systemwide enplanements (83.0M) reached a new all-time, seasonally-adjusted, high based on data through June 2024.
• Domestic enplanements (72.3M) reached a new all-time, seasonally-adjusted, high based on data through June 2024.
• International enplanements (10.73M) were down 3.7% from the all-time high of 11.13 million reached in February 2024. 

June unadjusted 

• Systemwide enplanements (89.7M) reached a new all-time high for the month of June.
• Domestic enplanements (77.2M) reached a new all-time high for the month of June.
• International enplanements (12.55M) reached a new all-time high for the month of June.

 

 

 

Table A. Seasonally Adjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods

Seasonally Adjusted	Passengers (in millions)	Percent Change Compared to
		Previous Month	Previous Year	Three Years Previous
June	83.0	2.8%	9.4%	36.4%

 

Table B. Unadjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods

Unadjusted	Passengers (in millions)	Percent Change Compared to
		Previous Year	Two Years Previous	Three Years Previous
June	89.7	6.7%	15.9%	35.6%

 

For data filed through June, see accompanying tables. For the complete database of reported data, see Traffic. For an explanation of BTS’ seasonal adjustment methodology, see Seasonal Adjustment.

Reporting Notes
Data are compiled from monthly reports filed with BTS by commercial U.S. air carriers detailing operations, passenger traffic and freight traffic. This release includes data received by BTS from 77 U.S. carriers as of September 5 for U.S. carrier scheduled civilian operations. 

See the BTS Airlines and Airports page for additional scheduled service numbers through June for U.S. airlines. International data by origin and destination is available through March. International totals in this press release consist of all U.S. carrier operations to and from the U.S. and from one foreign point to another foreign point. BTS’ Airlines and Airports page does not include U.S. carriers’ foreign point-to-point flights.

BTS has scheduled October 10 for the release of data through July.

None of the data are from samples. Measures of statistical significance do not apply to the complete air traffic data.

Missing carriers: TQ (Tailwind Air), JRQ (Kenai Aviation), and Vi (Vieques Air Link) did not report for June. 09Q (Swift Air) has gone out of business.

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