Airline Data and Analysis
By AirlineFinancials.com
This page reconciles 2002-2009 data annually into over 60 graph presentations for user friendly airline-to-airline comparisons.
Click on the airlines below to pull up a two page detailed table of historical data.
Page 1 includes primarily SEC and BTS data.
Page 2 provides calculated ratios.
(Except where noted, this is mainline data.)
--Further down this page are easy to interpret graphs--
American
Delta
United
Continental
Northwest
Southwest
US Airways
Summary of 2009 - mainline - data for all airlines covered by this website
Summary of 2008 - mainline - data for all airlines covered by this website
Summary of 2007 - mainline - data for all airlines covered by this website
Notes and glossary for data tables
Smaller airlines can be found here.
(note: DAL and NWA data is primarily from the BTS and may not reconcile with the SEC filings.)
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Index of charts showing annual comparisons from 2002-2009 Financial- Chart 1 – Total operating revenue Chart 2 – Operating unit revenue (RASM) Chart 3 – Revenue per aircraft Chart 4 – Revenue productivity per employee Chart 5 – Revenue productivity per flight attendant Chart 6 – Revenue productivity per pilot Specific airline employee revenue productivity- Chart 7 – American employee revenue productivity Chart 8 – United employee revenue productivity Chart 9 – Continental employee revenue productivity Chart 10 – Northwest employee revenue productivity Chart 11 – Delta employee revenue productivity Chart 12 – Southwest employee revenue productivity Chart 13 – USAir employee revenue productivity Financial/operational- Chart 14 – System yield Chart 15 – Cash & equiv ratio of revenue Chart 16 – Long term-debt ratio of revenue Chart 17 – Net debt (LT debt & capital leases minus cash & ST investments) Chart 18 – Operating margin Chart 19 -- Median stock price Chart 20 – Operating unit costs (CASM) Chart 21 – Unit costs without fuel and labor expense Chart 22 – Unit costs without labor expense Chart 23 – Labor expense per ASM Chart 24 -- Pilot wage/salary cost per unit mile Chart 25 -- Flight Attendant wage/salary cost per unit mile Chart 26 – Fuel expense ratio of operating revenue Chart 27 – Wage and benefit ratio of operating revenue Chart 28 -- Pilot wage/salary percentage of operating revenue Chart 29 -- Flight Attendant wage/salary percentage of operating revenue Chart 30 – Wage/salary per employee (average) Chart 31 – Benefits per employee (average) Operational- Chart 32 – Capacity (ASM's) Chart 33 – International ratio of ASM capacity Chart 34 -- ASM productivity per aircraft Chart 35 – ASM productivity per employee Chart 36 – ASM productivity per flight attendant Chart 37 – ASM productivity per pilot Labor- Chart 38 – Total employees Chart 39 – Total flight attendants Chart 40 – Total pilots Chart 41 – Employees per aircraft Chart 42 – Flight attendants per aircraft Chart 43 – Pilots per aircraft Chart 44 – Flight attendant ratio of total employees Chart 45 – Pilot ratio of total employees Passenger- Chart 46 – Average passenger fare Chart 47 – Operating expense per passenger less fuel & labor Chart 48 – Fuel expense per passenger Chart 49 – Labor expense (total wage & benefit) per passenger Chart 50 – Management expense per passenger Chart 51 – Pilot expense per passenger Chart 52 – Flight Attendant expense per passenger Chart 53 -- Pilot wage/salary percentage of average passenger fare Chart 54 -- Management wage/salary percentage of average passenger fare Chart 55 -- Flight Attendant wage/salary percentage of average passenger fare Miscellaneous ratios- Chart 56 – Revenue miles per passenger Chart 57 – Passenger per employee productivity Chart 58 – Passenger per flight attendant productivity Chart 59 – Load factor (percentage of seats sold) Chart 60 – Aircraft block hours (daily average) Chart 61 – Aircraft departures (daily average) Chart 62 -- Employee wage/salary (average) Chart 63 -- Pilot wage/salary (average) Chart 64 -- Flight Attendant wage/salary (average)
NOTES -- Some data has been excluded due to bankruptcy accounting and/or having irrelevant impact for comparison. Some calculations use cumulative data with a year ending divisor which may cause a distortion of the conclusion. US Airways includes America West SEC & BTS data for wage/benefits may not be reported the same. (SEC) US Security and Exchange Commission (BTS) Bureau of Transportation Statistics Note: There are differences between how airlines categorize data for BTS & SEC reports. [1] Total revenue excludes recognized affiliate passenger revenue. [2] Operating expense excludes recognized affiliate expenses. [3] Does not include benefit expense. [4] Recognized LT debt plus Cap leases less current maturities. [5] Operating income (loss) excludes known affiliate revenue and expenses. [6] Net profit (loss) is from SEC and includes affiliate data. [7] Estimated median stock price for the time period noted. [8] Active full time equivalent employees from BTS data. May be estimated when data is not available. [9] Operating margin excludes recognized affiliate income and expense. [10] Avg passenger fare is calculated from passenger revenue/passenger count. [11] Operating income (loss) per passenger is from average one way fare and does not include affiliate impact. [12] Southwest categorizes management personnel and salaries differently from other airlines. [13] There is no standard criteria for what "positions" are considered as "General Management". [14] Block hours per pilot is adjusted to 3 pilots/wide body aircraft and 2 pilots for all other aircraft. [15] Due to UAL's bankruptcy from Dec 2002 to Feb 2006. UAL debt for 2002 is as of 9/30/2002. [16] Net Debt is LT Debt & Capital leases minus cash & ST investments. [20] Delta reports consolidated mainline and affiliate data for several categories. As such, airline to airline comparisons may not be valid. Glossary of Terms- ASM— Available Seat Mile. A measure of capacity. ASM’s equal the total number of seats available for transporting passengers during a reporting period multiplied by the total number of miles flown during that period. RPM— Revenue Passenger Mile. One revenue-paying passenger transported one mile. RPM's equal the number of revenue passengers during a reporting period multiplied by the number of miles flown by those passengers during that period, RPM’s are also referred to as “traffic”. Yield— The amount of passenger revenue earned per RPM during a reporting period. RASM— Operating Revenue per ASM. The amount of operating revenue earned per ASM during a reporting period. RASM is also referred to as “unit revenue.” PRASM— Passenger Revenue per ASM. The amount of passenger revenue earned per ASM during a reporting period. Passenger RASM is also referred to as “unit revenue.” CASM— (Operating) Cost per Available Seat Mile. The amount of operating cost incurred per ASM during a reporting period, also referred to as “unit cost”. LF-- Passenger Load Factor — A measure of utilized available seating capacity calculated by dividing RPMs by ASM’s for a reporting period. Average fare-- Represents the average one-way fare paid per flight segment by a revenue passenger O/W -- One way Disclaimer: Data source includes SEC, BTS, labor web sites & Corporate Reports. Except where noted, recognized affiliate revenue and expenses were removed to provide mainline comparisons. All data is subject to unintentional errors. For more equivalent comparisons, some UAL, NWA & DAL data immediately pre & post bankruptcy was used.
[c] Metric may not be reported. Calculated from other reported data.
