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TranStats airline domestic market share March 2025-February 2026

BTS TranStats homepage reporting domestic airline market share for the 12 months ending February 2026.

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Evidence topology

Where this source enters the observatory

4/7 direct domains · 2 normalized indicators · 1 market · 2026
Data
Encoded row volume · log scaleExact counts shown
13 high / 0 medium / 0 low
3 explicit zero states · Definitions + Observations + Participants + Reports
  • Record identitybts-transtats-2026Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 2026
  • Source classPublic datasetAccessed May 16, 2026
  • Encoded scope5 active routes15 direct / 2 indicator rows
  • Permitted inferenceTrace + reproduceNo automatic endorsement or comparability

Evidence topology

Where this record enters the observatory

5 active routes / 3 not encoded

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Market context

Markets reached by this source

1 linked context

Measurement releases

Definitions, observations, and participant rows

13 encoded rows

Market definition / 2026

Domestic airlines

agency defined / passenger shares

Product boundary
Domestic scheduled airline passenger traffic
Geographic boundary
United States domestic itineraries
Measurement basis
Carrier share of domestic scheduled passengers
Denominator
Passengers reported in the BTS domestic market-share table for the 12 months ending February 2026

Confidence labels describe the observatory's use of linked measurement and definition rows. They are not grades for the publisher or the source as a whole.

Official record chronology

Policy records backed by this source

0 official records

No official policy record encoded

This source is not currently attached to an enforcement, inquiry, remedy, settlement, or agency-report event in the public chronology.

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Research reuse

Public reports citing this record

2 citations

Published report

Jul 19, 2026

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Published report

May 16, 2026

Where Public Market-Share Data Runs Out

An open report explaining why the observatory sometimes withholds HHI even when public facts indicate concentration.

BTS public airline market-share table and FTC PBM interim staff report materials.

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Industry observatory

NAICS concentration evidence

0 industry rows

No NAICS industry rows encoded

This source does not back the Census national industry-concentration tables in the current release. Its other evidence-domain counts remain independently inspectable.

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Citation custody

The record behind the rows

Bureau of Transportation Statistics TranStats, Airline Domestic Market Share, March 2025-February 2026.

BTS TranStats homepage reporting domestic airline market share for the 12 months ending February 2026.

Canonical source citation

Bureau of Transportation Statistics TranStats, Airline Domestic Market Share, March 2025-February 2026. Available at https://transtats.bts.gov/Homepage.asp. Accessed May 16, 2026. Antitrust Radar source record bts-transtats-2026: https://antitrustradar.org/sources/bts-transtats-2026

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Publisher
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Access date
May 16, 2026
License note
Public federal government dataset
Archive
No archive URL recorded

Source-scoped data packet

Reusable public endpoints

Data console
1

Source record

Citation, publisher, access, and license

1

Definitions

Product, geography, denominator, and limits

1

Observations

HHI, market size, status, and methodology

11

Participants

Firm shares, rank, aggregate flags, and custody

0

Official records

Dated enforcement and policy chronology

0

Named edges

Exact organization roles in official records

0

Event windows

Bounded pre, event-year, and post HHI context

2

Indicator observations

Bounded measures carrying this source's custody

2

Reports

Published observatory work citing this source

Interpretation boundary

Use the source at its encoded scope

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