U.S. airline passenger traffic began to return to normal levels last year, though numbers remain below the record highs of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. airlines carried 194 million more passengers in 2022 than in 2021, up 30% year-to-year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
“For the full year 2022, January through December, U.S. airlines carried 853 million passengers (unadjusted), up from 658 million in 2021 and 388 million in 2020,” the bureau reported last month.
Other findings:
- Systemwide enplanements of 853 million were down 8% from the all-time annual high of 928 million in 2019
- Domestic enplanements of 751 million were down 8% from the record annual high of 812 million in 2019
- International enplanements, 102 million, were down 11% from 2019’s record, 115 million
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