# 2025-20020: Airlines Must Report Passenger Trips for Government Stats

2025-20020, Agency Information Collection; Activity Under OMB Review; Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report, is a Federal Register notice from Transportation Department, Transportation Statistics Bureau published 2025-11-17, effective Written comments should be submitted by December 17, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20020
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20020
- Title: Agency Information Collection; Activity Under OMB Review; Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Transportation Statistics Bureau
- Citation: 90 FR 51440
- Published: 2025-11-17
- Effective: Written comments should be submitted by December 17, 2025.
- Comments close: 2025-12-17
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Airlines Must Report Passenger Trips for Government Stats

## Summary

The Department of Transportation is asking to keep collecting travel data from airlines about where passengers start and end their trips. About 100 airlines will spend around 30 hours each year filling out these reports, helping the government understand travel patterns better. Comments on this plan are open until December 17, 2025, but no one has spoken up yet!

## Abstract

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below will be forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for extension of currently approved collections. The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following collection of information was published on August 11, 2025. No comments were received.

## Effects PRIA read

- Airlines Must Keep Reporting O&D Data: cost, high. Certificated air carriers that operated scheduled passenger service must continue to provide the Passenger Origin‑Destination Survey data. The collection lists 100 respondents, 1,200 total annual responses, an estimated 30 hours per response, and a total annual burden of 36,000 hours; comments are…
- Reported Data Can Be Published and Shared: cost, medium. Bureau of Transportation Statistics notifies respondents that it may publish each respondent's identity and data and may submit the information to agencies outside BTS for review, analysis, and possible use in regulatory and other administrative matters.
- Data Used for Routes, Agreements, and Disease Modeling: benefit, medium. The Passenger Origin‑Destination Survey data are used for monitoring the airline industry, negotiating international agreements, reviewing requests for antitrust immunity for carrier alliances, selecting new international routes, selecting U.S. carriers to operate limited‑entry foreign routes, and…

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## Sources
- [2025-20020 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/17/2025-20020/agency-information-collection-activity-under-omb-review-passenger-origin-destination-survey-report)
- [2025-20020 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-17/pdf/2025-20020.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20020 (as of 2026-06-08).