U.S. airlines carried 75.1 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in September 2022, seasonally-adjusted, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS), up 6.3% from August.
BTS reported 65.8 million domestic passengers and 9.3 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in September.
Two measures of U.S. airlines passenger enplanements:
September seasonally adjusted:
- System-wide enplanements (75.1M) were down 6.9% from the all-time high of 80.6 million reached in January 2020.
- Domestic enplanements (65.8M) were down 7.2% from the all-time high of 70.9 million reached in January 2020.
- International enplanements (9.27M) were down 5.1% from the all-time high of 9.77 million reached in October 2019.
September unadjusted:
- Systemwide enplanements (71.4M) were down 1.6% from the all-time September high (72.6) reached in 2019.
- Domestic enplanements (63.1M) were down 1.3% from the all-time September high (64.0) reached in 2019.
- International enplanements (8.29M) were down 3.7% from the all-time September high (8.61) reached in 2019.