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Table 4-8M: Certificated Air Carrier Fuel Consumption and Travel^a

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Number of aircraft	2,135	2,125	2,679	2,495	3,808	4,678	6,083	6,054	7,320	7,297	7,370	7,411	7,478	7,616	8,111	8,228	7,935	U
Average kilometers flown per aircraft (thousands)	784	1,074	1,528	1,500	1,236	1,191	1,250	1,239	1,077	1,129	1,170	1,222	1,260	^R1,273	1,236	^R1,283	1408.176	U
Aircraft-kilometers (millions)
Domestic operations	1,381	1,825	3,328	3,135	4,060	4,902	6,378	6,202	6,429	6,690	7,049	7,450	7,743	^R7,903	^R8,103	^R8,581	^R9,115	8,932
International operations	293	457	764	607	645	668	1,223	1,299	1,455	1,547	1,577	1,606	1,679	^R1,793	^R1,918	^R1,971	^R2,063	2,025
Fuel consumption (million liters)
Domestic operations	7,397	14,721	29,742	28,610	^R32,248	38,289	47,049	43,555	44,528	45,270	47,227	48,499	49,918	51,709	52,530	54,518	56,194	53,060
International operations	2,143	4,845	8,491	7,378	^R6,613	9,418	15,002	14,915	15,596	15,569	16,319	17,076	17,632	18,791	19,631	19,873	20,725	19,824
Aircraft-kilometers flown per liter
Domestic operations	0.19	0.12	0.11	0.11	^R0.13	0.13	0.14	0.14	0.14	0.15	0.15	0.15	0.16	0.15	0.15	0.16	0.16	0.17
International operations	0.14	0.09	0.09	0.08	^R0.10	0.07	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10

KEY: R = revised; U = data are unavailable.

^a Aircraft operating under 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135.

NOTES

1 mile =1.609344 kilometers.

1 gallon = 3.785412 liters.

SOURCES

Number of aircraft:

1960-65: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA Statistical Handbook of Aviation, 1970 edition (Washington, DC: 1970), table 5.3.

1970-75: Ibid., FAA Statistical Handbook of Aviation, Calendar Year 1979 (Washington, DC: 1979), table 5.1.

1980-85: Ibid., FAA Statistical Handbook of Aviation, Calendar Year 1986 (Washington, DC: 1986), table 5.1.

1990-97: Ibid., FAA Statistical Handbook of Aviation, Calendar Year 1997 (Washington, DC: unpublished), personal communication, Mar. 19, 1999.

1998-2001: Aerospace Industries Association, Aerospace Facts and Figures (Washington DC: Annual Issues), "Active U.S. Air Carrier Fleet."

Aircraft-kilometers flown:

1960: Civil Aeronautics Board, Handbook of Airline Statistics 1969 (Washington, DC: 1970), part III, tables 2 and 13.

1965-70: Ibid., Handbook of Airline Statistics 1973 (Washington, DC: 1974), part III, tables 2 and 13.

1975-80: Ibid., Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: December 1976), pp. 4 and 14; and (December 1981), pp. 2 and 3.

1985-2001: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues, December), pp. 2 and 3, line 27 plus line 50.

Fuel consumption:

1960-2001: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, Internet site http://www.bts.gov/oai/fuel/fuelyearly.html as of Aug. 1, 2002.

Table 4-8M: Certificated Air Carrier Fuel Consumption and Travela

Table 4-8M: Certificated Air Carrier Fuel Consumption and Travel^a