June 2023 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 8.6% from June 2022

U.S. airlines carried 84.0 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in June 2023, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, June enplanements are down 1.4% from May and down 7.1% from the all-time high reached in January 2020.

BTS reported 72.5 million domestic passengers and 11.5 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in June, 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

June seasonally adjusted:

• Systemwide enplanements (75.1M) were down 7.1% from the all-time high of 80.8 million reached in January 2020.
• Domestic enplanements (65.4M) were down 7.9% from the all-time high of 71.0 million reached in January 2020.
• International enplanements (9.75M) were down 2.5% from the all-time high of 10 million reached in April 2023. 

June unadjusted:

• Systemwide enplanements (84M) reached a new all-time high for the month of June.
• Domestic enplanements (72.5M) were down 0.4% from the all-time June high (72.8M) reached in 2019.
• International enplanements (11.55M) reached a new all-time high for the month of June.

Table A. Seasonally Adjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods

Table B. Unadjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods