May 2025 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Down 2.1% from the Same Month Last Year
Source: US DOT U.S. airlines carried 85.2 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, May enplanements are up 0.5% from April and down 3.5% from the all-time high reached in June 2024. BTS reported 74.2 million domestic passengers and 11 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in May, 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. Trends (not seasonally adjusted) in U.S. airlines passenger enplanements May unadjusted Systemwide enplanements (85.2M) were down 2.1% from the [...]