July 2024 U.S. airline traffic data up 4.5% from the same month last year

U.S. airlines carried 91.8 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in July 2024, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, July enplanements are down 1.9% from June and down 1.9% from the all-time high reached in June 2024.

BTS reported 78.8 million domestic passengers and 13 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in July, 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

July seasonally adjusted

• Systemwide enplanements (81.3M) were down 1.9% from the all-time high of 82.9 million reached in June 2024.

• Domestic enplanements (70.7M) were down 2% from the all-time high of 72.1 million reached in June 2024.

• International enplanements (10.6M) were down 4.2% from the all-time high of 11.1 million reached in February 2024.

July unadjusted

• Systemwide enplanements (91.8M) reached a new all-time high for the month of July.

• Domestic enplanements (78.8M) reached a new all-time high for the month of July.

• International enplanements (13.0M) reached a new all-time high for the month of July.