February 2024 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 8.6% from the Same Month Last Year

Thursday, May 9, 2024

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February 2024 Airline Traffic Infographic

U.S. airlines carried 70.4 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in February 2024, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, February enplanements are up 1.3% from January and reached a new all-time high the all-time high reached in February 2024.

BTS reported 61 million domestic passengers and 9.4 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in February, 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

February seasonally adjusted

Systemwide enplanements (82.4M) reached a new all-time, seasonally-adjusted, high based on data through February 2024.
Domestic enplanements (71.2M) were down 0.1% from the all-time high of 71.3 million reached in November 2023.
International enplanements (11.17M) reached a new all-time, seasonally-adjusted, high based on data through February 2024.

February unadjusted

Systemwide enplanements (70.4M) reached a new all-time high for the month of February.
Domestic enplanements (61M) reached a new all-time high for the month of February.
International enplanements (9.4M) were up 16.4% from the all-time February high (8.07) reached in 2023.

Line chart showing monthly passengers on U.S>. scheduled airlines in February 2021 through February 2024

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

		Percent Change Compared to
Seasonally Adjusted	Passengers (in millions)	Previous Month	Previous Year	Three Years Previous
February	82.4	1.3%	4.9%	155.9%

Table B. Unadjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods

		Percent Change Compared to
Unadjusted	Passengers (in millions)	Previous Year	Two Years Previous	Three Years Previous
February	70.4	8.6%	28.4%	164.6%

For data filed through February, 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 May 3 for U.S. carrier scheduled civilian operations.

See the BTS Airlines and Airports page for additional scheduled service numbers through February for U.S. airlines. International data by origin and destination is available through November. 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 June 13 for the release of data through March.

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