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US Airways

In 2015, its last year in the data, US Airways flew 57.3 passenger-miles per gallon of jet fuel. That is 7% worse than the all-airline figure that year. Since 2000 its figure has risen 54%.

57.3passenger-miles per gallon, 2015
0.170 kgCO2 per passenger-mile, 2015
83%of seats filled, 2015
565 milliongallons of jet fuel burned in scheduled passenger flying, 2015
US Airways: passenger-miles per gallon by yearLine chart of US Airways passenger-miles per gallon of fuel from 2000 to 2015, with the all-airline average for comparison.35404550556065200020022004200620082010201220142015Passenger-miles per gallonAll airlinesUS Airways
US Airways against the all-airline figure, 2000 to 2015.

US Airways sells seats on flights operated by regional partners. In 2015 about 0.0% of its seat-miles were flown by regionals. How much of each regional's flying belongs to US Airways is an estimate based on the hubs the regional serves. The figure for 2015 sits between 57.3 and 60.5 passenger-miles per gallon depending on how multi-airline regionals are split. See the methodology.

US Airways merged with American, and BTS began combining their filings in July 2015. America West was reporting combined with US Airways from October 2007. Later years are under American Airlines.

Year by year

YearPassenger-miles per gallonkg CO2 per passenger-mileSeat-miles per gallonLoad factorPassengers (millions)Fuel (million gallons)CO2 (thousand tonnes)
2015 57.3 0.170 69.0 83.1% 28.6 565 5,508
2014 58.1 0.168 70.1 82.8% 74.4 1,246 12,150
2013 59.3 0.164 70.3 84.3% 76.7 1,236 12,047
2012 56.6 0.172 67.8 83.4% 73.6 1,226 11,954
2011 54.6 0.178 66.0 82.8% 73.8 1,249 12,180
2010 52.4 0.186 64.3 81.5% 74.3 1,279 12,473
2009 50.7 0.192 63.0 80.5% 79.0 1,359 13,255
2008 49.7 0.196 61.9 80.3% 81.2 1,428 13,920
2007 47.0 0.207 59.7 78.7% 65.0 1,102 10,745
2006 44.6 0.219 58.1 76.8% 56.9 995 9,703
2005 44.4 0.220 60.3 73.6% 57.8 1,014 9,885
2004 45.2 0.216 61.4 73.7% 55.3 977 9,522
2003 46.1 0.211 64.3 71.7% 52.5 882 8,603
2002 41.6 0.234 58.9 70.6% 51.4 984 9,594
2001 37.8 0.258 55.1 68.7% 58.2 1,222 11,913
2000 37.1 0.262 53.0 70.1% 62.2 1,268 12,361

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