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Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing air transportation of passengers or passengers and freight over regular routes and on regular schedules. Establishments in this industry operate flights even if partially loaded. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Transportation & logistics schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline
Transportation & logistics v2
Inherited from
Transportation & logistics
Companies mapped
0 of 0
Primitives
56 in 8 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 481111
Establishments
1,858
Employees
487,672
Annual payroll
$49.3B
Payroll per employee
$101.1K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-4543
  • 5-9171
  • 10-19232
  • 1000+90
  • 20-49318
  • 50-99206
  • 100-249183
  • 250-49973
  • 500-99942

Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.

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