The data describes passenger-miles in U.S. air traffic from 2007 through 2017. In 2017, passengers covered a distance of around 693.8 billion miles by plane. According to the source, air traffic passenger miles are defined as aircraft-miles flown on each inter airport segment multiplied by the number of passengers carried on that segment.
2007 | 607564 |
2008 | 583292 |
2009 | 551741 |
2010 | 564695 |
2011 | 575613 |
2012 | 580501 |
2013 | 589692 |
2014 | 607772 |
2015 | 641905 |
2016 | 670436 |
2017 | 693818 |