Here are the key passenger-misery metrics from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics
report on airline traffic in 2012 released today: Number of domestic and international passengers on U.S. airlines, up 0.8 percent. Number of flights down 2.0 percent. Available seats down 0.2 percent. Load factor (the percentage of seats filled with paying passengers) up 1.7 percentage points, to a record 81.5 percent.
Overall, U.S. airlines carried 736.6 million passengers in 2012 (measured by enplanements, or the number of passengers boarding individual flights, including connecting flights) -- up from 730.8 in 2011.
Table 1: Scheduled System (Domestic and International) Airline Travel on U.S. Airlines
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Monthly
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Year-to-Date
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Dec 2011
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Dec 2012
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Change %
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2011
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2012
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Change %
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Passengers (in millions)
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59.1
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58.9
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-0.3
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730.8
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736.6
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0.8
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Flights (in thousands)
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770.8
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740.2
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-4.0
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9,478.2
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9,283.9
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-2.0
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Revenue Passenger Miles (in billions)
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65.5
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65.9
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0.6
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814.4
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823.2
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1.1
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Available Seat-Miles (in billions)
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81.1
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80.9
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-0.3
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992.7
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994.5
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0.2
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Load Factor*
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80.8
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81.5
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0.7
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82.0
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82.8
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0.8
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Flight Stage Length**
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750.0
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768.5
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2.5
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742.9
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755.2
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1.7
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Passenger Trip Length***
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1,108.9
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1,119.7
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1.0
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1,114.3
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1,117.5
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0.3
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Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Market and Segment
*Change in load factor points
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