Real BTS data

US domestic passenger & freight traffic by route

AeroRoute Guide's route pages are built from OpenFlights, a static, community-maintained 2014-frozen schedule snapshot that records which airlines file a route — not how many people fly it. This section adds real, government-sourced passenger, freight, and departure-frequency counts on top of that, for every existing route page where a match exists.

4,879Route pages enriched with real BTS data
5,349Domestic-eligible route pages (both ends in the US/territories)
748,686,927Total 2025 passengers, summed across enriched routes
7,125,953Total 2025 departures performed, summed across enriched routes

Coverage. 4,879 of 5,349 domestic-eligible route pages (91.2%) matched a real 2025 BTS T-100 Domestic Segment record for scheduled passenger service (BTS class F) and now carry a "BTS domestic traffic" section with 2025 passengers, freight, mail, departures scheduled/performed, a per-carrier breakdown, and aircraft types flown. The remaining 470 domestic-eligible pages are untouched: BTS has no matching scheduled-passenger record for that exact directed city pair in 2025 (commonly a small general-aviation field, a seaplane/on-demand-only operation, or a route in the OpenFlights snapshot that has since been discontinued — OpenFlights' own data is frozen as of 2014). International route pages (30,241 of them) are also untouched: BTS T-100 Domestic Segment data only covers segments where both endpoints are in the United States or a US territory, by design, so no volume claim is made for international city pairs.

Total freight carried across all enriched routes in 2025: 1,086,763,094 lb. Total mail: 127,482,248 lb.

Top 50 domestic routes by 2025 passengers

Ranked by BTS-reported 2025 passengers carried on scheduled service. Each link goes to that route's full profile page, now including its own BTS traffic section.

FromToPassengers (2025)Departures performedLeading carrier
LAX · Los Angeles JFK · New York 1,463,719 10,124 Delta Air Lines Inc.
JFK · New York LAX · Los Angeles 1,448,659 10,174 Delta Air Lines Inc.
ORD · Chicago LGA · New York 1,387,132 11,193 United Air Lines Inc.
LGA · New York ORD · Chicago 1,382,413 11,215 United Air Lines Inc.
LAX · Los Angeles SFO · San Francisco 1,365,324 11,862 United Air Lines Inc.
ATL · Atlanta MCO · Orlando 1,357,669 8,081 Delta Air Lines Inc.
SFO · San Francisco LAX · Los Angeles 1,342,956 11,911 United Air Lines Inc.
MCO · Orlando ATL · Atlanta 1,339,829 8,077 Delta Air Lines Inc.
LAS · Las Vegas LAX · Los Angeles 1,231,064 10,238 Southwest Airlines Co.
DEN · Denver PHX · Phoenix 1,198,989 8,949 Southwest Airlines Co.
LAX · Los Angeles LAS · Las Vegas 1,198,900 10,200 Southwest Airlines Co.
PHX · Phoenix DEN · Denver 1,196,362 9,012 Southwest Airlines Co.
LAX · Los Angeles ORD · Chicago 1,168,419 7,005 United Air Lines Inc.
ORD · Chicago LAX · Los Angeles 1,160,361 7,050 United Air Lines Inc.
LAX · Los Angeles HNL · Honolulu 1,157,195 5,333 United Air Lines Inc.
HNL · Honolulu LAX · Los Angeles 1,155,695 5,330 United Air Lines Inc.
ATL · Atlanta LGA · New York 1,113,766 7,549 Delta Air Lines Inc.
LGA · New York ATL · Atlanta 1,104,996 7,568 Delta Air Lines Inc.
FLL · Fort Lauderdale ATL · Atlanta 1,099,364 6,445 Delta Air Lines Inc.
ATL · Atlanta FLL · Fort Lauderdale 1,089,884 6,451 Delta Air Lines Inc.
DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth LAX · Los Angeles 1,054,280 6,503 American Airlines Inc.
ORD · Chicago DEN · Denver 1,034,452 6,308 United Air Lines Inc.
DEN · Denver ORD · Chicago 1,030,556 6,279 United Air Lines Inc.
LAX · Los Angeles DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth 1,029,334 6,461 American Airlines Inc.
HNL · Honolulu OGG · Kahului 1,015,276 10,621 Hawaiian Airlines Inc.
OGG · Kahului HNL · Honolulu 1,012,375 10,627 Hawaiian Airlines Inc.
DEN · Denver LAS · Las Vegas 1,004,585 7,267 Southwest Airlines Co.
DEN · Denver LAX · Los Angeles 997,703 7,872 United Air Lines Inc.
SJU · San Juan MCO · Orlando 993,564 6,171 Southwest Airlines Co.
MCO · Orlando SJU · San Juan 988,407 6,161 Southwest Airlines Co.
LAS · Las Vegas DEN · Denver 984,265 7,239 Southwest Airlines Co.
ATL · Atlanta TPA · Tampa 979,522 6,033 Delta Air Lines Inc.
TPA · Tampa ATL · Atlanta 977,532 5,990 Delta Air Lines Inc.
EWR · Newark MCO · Orlando 972,524 6,441 United Air Lines Inc.
SFO · San Francisco ORD · Chicago 972,396 5,308 United Air Lines Inc.
LAX · Los Angeles DEN · Denver 970,210 7,810 United Air Lines Inc.
ORD · Chicago SFO · San Francisco 968,048 5,321 United Air Lines Inc.
MCO · Orlando EWR · Newark 960,295 6,446 United Air Lines Inc.
ATL · Atlanta DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth 956,703 6,461 Delta Air Lines Inc.
ATL · Atlanta LAX · Los Angeles 953,520 5,336 Delta Air Lines Inc.
LAX · Los Angeles ATL · Atlanta 952,957 5,313 Delta Air Lines Inc.
SFO · San Francisco JFK · New York 947,259 6,594 Delta Air Lines Inc.
DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth ATL · Atlanta 946,526 6,475 Delta Air Lines Inc.
ATL · Atlanta MIA · Miami 941,823 6,169 Delta Air Lines Inc.
JFK · New York SFO · San Francisco 941,154 6,627 Delta Air Lines Inc.
DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth ORD · Chicago 934,701 6,599 American Airlines Inc.
MIA · Miami ATL · Atlanta 934,009 6,191 Delta Air Lines Inc.
ORD · Chicago DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth 933,907 6,569 American Airlines Inc.
SLC · Salt Lake City DEN · Denver 932,314 7,900 Southwest Airlines Co.
DEN · Denver SFO · San Francisco 921,456 5,597 United Air Lines Inc.

Methodology summary

Source: BTS T-100 Domestic Segment (All Carriers), U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics — a public-domain U.S. government work. Full calendar year 2025 (the most recent complete year available; 2026 monthly data was not yet published in the source's own year selector at fetch time, 2026-07-25). Scheduled passenger service (BTS class F) only; all-cargo and non-scheduled service are excluded from these figures. Matching is exact: a route page's (origin, destination) IATA pair must equal a BTS-reported (origin, destination) pair — no fuzzy matching, no merging of nearby airports, no gap-filling for unmatched routes. See the full methodology for the fetch pipeline, corrections path, and complete field list.