May 9, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Speedy growth of air courier industry
The faster growth
of cargo transportation, as opposed to passenger traffic, is reflected in
the more rapid growth of employment in the air courier industry (which
carries only letters, parcels and packages) and the nonscheduled transport
industry (which is dominated by cargo) in 1988-98.
![Percent increase in employment and increase as a percentage of entire increase in jobs in transportation by air, 1988-1998](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925075839im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/May/wk2/art02.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
Air courier employment grew by 70 percent from 1988 to 1998, while
employment in nonscheduled transport rose by 137 percent. Growth in air
courier jobs accounted for 59 percent of the entire increase in jobs in
transportation by air.
Employment in scheduled air transport increased by just 15 percent in
this period. Scheduled air transportation is dominated by the more slowly
growing passenger traffic.
These data are from the Current
Employment Statistics program. To
find out more, see "Transportation
by air: job growth moderates from stellar rates,"
by William C. Goodman, Monthly Labor Review, March 2000.
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