WASHINGTON (AFX) - U.S. airlines carried 2.9 percent more domestic and international cargo in November than in the same month last year, a trade group said Thursday.
The Air Transport Association said 15 U.S.-based carriers logged 2.3 million revenue ton miles in November, compared with 2.2 million a year earlier. A revenue ton mile refers to every ton of cargo transported one mile.
Domestic shipments grew by 0.3 percent, while international shipments jumped 5.3 percent.
For the first 11 months of the year, the airlines recorded more than 24.1 million revenue ton miles, or almost 5 percent more than the year before.
The only area of decline was in mail deliveries, which stood at 86,000 revenue ton miles in November, down from nearly 103,000 last year. Year-to-date, mail deliveries declined by almost 6 percent to roughly 972,000 revenue ton miles.
The decline was caused by more mail being shipped by truck than by air, and more mail being sent by freighter than by combination airlines, said John Heimlich, vice president and chief economist for the Air Transport Association.
The 15 carriers included in the tally are: Alaska Air Group Inc.'s Alaska Airlines, Aloha Airlines, AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, ATA Airlines, Continental Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., FedEx Corp., Hawaiian Holdings Inc., JetBlue Airways Corp., Midwest Air Group Inc., Northwest Airlines Corp., Southwest Airlines Co., UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, United Parcel Service Inc. and US Airways Group Inc.
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