January 2024 U.S. airline traffic data up 4.0% from the same month last year

U.S. airlines carried 70.0 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in January 2024, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, January enplanements are down 1.0% from December and down 1.0% from the all-time high reached in December 2023.

BTS reported 59.8 million domestic passengers and 10.2 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in January, 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

January seasonally adjusted

• Systemwide enplanements (81.4M) were down 1% from the all-time high of 82.2 million reached in December 2023.
• Domestic enplanements (70.3M) were down 1.4% from the all-time high of 71.3 million reached in November 2023.
• International enplanements (11.06M) reached a new all-time, seasonally-adjusted, high based on data through January 2024.

January unadjusted

• Systemwide enplanements (70M) were down 1.1% from the all-time January high (70.8) reached in 2020.
• Domestic enplanements (59.8M) were down 3% from the all-time January high (61.6) reached in 2020.
• International enplanements (10.25M) reached a new all-time high for the month of January.