FAA Aerospace Forecast: Fiscal Years 2017-2037

This document starts with a review of U.S. aviation in 2016. It then provides forecasts for U.S. Airlines, General Aviation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Operations, U.S. Commercial Aircraft Fleet, and Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Forecast highlights include: U.S. carrier passenger growth over the next 20 years to average 1.9 percent per year; system traffic in revenue passenger miles is projected to increase by 2.4 percent a year between 2017 and 2037; the long term outlook for general aviation is stable to optimistic; and operations at FAA and contract towers are forecast to increase 0.8 percent a year over the forecast period.

• Record URL:
  https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation/aerospace_forecasts/media/FY2017-37_FAA_Aerospace_Forecast.pdf
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Publication Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Tables;
• Pagination: 89p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Airlines; Civil aircraft; Civil aviation; Drones; Forecasting; General aviation; Market assessment; Trend (Statistics)
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01633412
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 22 2017 1:45PM