March 2026 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 0.9% from the Same Month Last Year :: Hospitality Trends

U.S. airlines carried 84.4 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in March 2026, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, March enplanements are down 0.3% from February and down 1.9% from the all-time high reached in June 2024.

BTS reported 73.1 million domestic passengers and 11.3 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in March, 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 enplanementsMarch unadjusted

Monthly Passengers on U.S. Scheduled Airlines (Domestic + International), March 2023 – March 2026

Table A. Unadjusted Passenger Enplanements Compared to Previous Time Periods

Seasonally adjusted trends in U.S. airlines passenger enplanements March seasonally adjusted 

• Systemwide enplanements (81.7M) were down 1.9% from the all-time high of 83.3 million reached in June 2024.
• Domestic enplanements (70.9M) were down 2.1% from the all-time high of 72.4 million reached in June 2024.
• International enplanements (10.86M) were down 2.2% from the all-time high of 11.1 million reached in December 2024.

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