Airlines Must Report Passenger Trips for Government Stats
Published Date: 11/17/2025
Notice
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!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Airlines Must Keep Reporting O&D Data
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 due by December 17, 2025.
Reported Data Can Be Published and Shared
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
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 modeling the spread of contagious diseases.
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