BTS Releases April Airline Traffic Data; Domestic Airlines Carried 47.4 Million Passengers in April 2003
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Monday, July 7, 2003 -- U.S. airlines carried 47.4 million domestic passengers in April, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported today in a release of preliminary data. Effective October 2002, commuter and small certificated carriers were required to begin reporting domestic enplaned data. The addition of this new data has a distorting effect on year-over-year domestic enplanement comparisons, but represents the new way that this data will be announced (affected data shown in bold).
The April 2003 data include 3,163,281 domestic enplanements that were reported by these relatively new reporting carriers. Thus, the same carrier year over year comparison in April 2003 would total 44,234,664 domestic enplanements this year or a 2.6 percent decrease compared to the prior year's April results.
Total domestic enplanements were 3.8 percent lower in April 2003 compared to March 2003 for all domestic flights operated by U.S. airlines. Month-to-month changes can be affected by seasonal factors.
Table 1. Industry Domestic Enplanements
Month | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
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January | 44,107,354 | 38,557,439 | 43,067,895 |
February | 43,177,091 | 38,644,426 | 40,981,396 |
March | 53,054,589 | 48,501,883 | 49,292,829 |
April | 50,791,568 | 45,437,147 | 47,397,945 |
May | 51,119,648 | 47,114,281 | |
June | 53,471,052 | 49,188,600 | |
July | 55,802,826 | 51,155,839 | |
August | 56,404,948 | 51,226,483 | |
September | 30,546,412 | 40,223,878 | |
October | 40,290,718 | 48,273,424 | |
November | 40,691,635 | 44,226,121 | |
December | 40,901,001 | 49,864,516 | |
Year to Date | 191,130,602 | 171,140,895 | 180,740,065 |
Annual | 560,358,842 | 552,414,037 |
Source: T-100 Domestic Market
Additional airline traffic data can be found on the BTS website at TranStats, the Intermodal Transportation Database at http://transtats.bts.gov. Click on "aviation", then on "Air Carrier Statistics (Form 41 Traffic)", then click on "T-100 Domestic Market."
Table 2. Top 10 Airlines, ranked by April 2003 Domestic Enplanements
Rank | Airline Name | Airline Code | April 2002 | March 2003 | April 2003 | April 2002 Rank |
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1 | Delta Airlines, Inc. | DL | 7,012,477 | 6,974,199 | 6,160,049 | 1 |
2 | Southwest Airlines, Co. | WN | 6,074,278 | 6,332,410 | 6,137,024 | 3 |
3 | American Airlines, Inc. | AA | 6,429,205 | 6,310,554 | 5,907,580 | 2 |
4 | United Airlines, Inc. | UA | 4,643,663 | 4,844,612 | 4,537,823 | 4 |
5 | Northwest Airlines, Inc. | NW | 3,592,418 | 3,907,410 | 3,500,259 | 6 |
6 | US Airways, Inc. | US | 4,013,645 | 3,321,963 | 3,227,126 | 5 |
7 | Continental Airlines, Inc. | CO | 2,754,391 | 2,686,997 | 2,521,969 | 7 |
8 | America West Airlines, Inc. | HP | 1,559,125 | 1,668,638 | 1,593,759 | 8 |
9 | American Eagle Airlines, Inc. | MQ | 910,959 | 1,027,069 | 1,027,404 | 10 |
10 | Alaska Airlines, Inc. | AS | 983,096 | 1,000,331 | 991,258 | 9 |
Source: T-100 Domestic Market
Table 3. Top 10 Airports ranked by April 2003 Domestic Enplanements
Rank | Airport Name | Airport Code | April 2002 | March 2003 | April 2003 | April 2002 Rank |
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1 | Hartsfield International, Atlanta | ATL | 2,932,581 | 3,053,924 | 2,843,101 | 1 |
2 | O'Hare International, Chicago | ORD | 2,058,100 | 2,295,260 | 2,295,537 | 2 |
3 | Dallas-Ft.Worth International | DFW | 1,818,875 | 1,982,729 | 1,814,101 | 3 |
4 | Los Angeles International | LAX | 1,520,198 | 1,597,826 | 1,552,962 | 4 |
5 | Phoenix Sky Harbor International | PHX | 1,364,657 | 1,630,532 | 1,501,934 | 5 |
6 | Las Vegas-McCarran International | LAS | 1,306,497 | 1,437,742 | 1,336,595 | 6 |
7 | Denver International | DEN | 1,257,436 | 1,440,291 | 1,246,915 | 7 |
8 | Detroit Metro Wayne County | DTW | 1,106,830 | 1,123,357 | 1,161,583 | 9 |
9 | Minneapolis-St. Paul International | MSP | 1,084,157 | 1,246,407 | 1,118,582 | 11 |
10 | Orlando International | MCO | 1,109,381 | 1,163,844 | 1,070,809 | 8 |
Source: T-100 Domestic Market
Data are compiled from monthly reports filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by commercial air carriers detailing operations, passenger traffic and freight traffic. April traffic data are preliminary and include data received by BTS as of July 1. Data are subject to revision.
Revised April data are posted on the BTS website at http://transtats.bts.gov. BTS will release May traffic data on Aug. 5.