All-cargo airlines fly about two-fifths of US air freight ton-miles, a share that peaked in the first pandemic year. The split is by airline, not aircraft: a passenger airline's own freighters count on the other side.
What this shows: The chart covers 1990 to 2024. It plots All-cargo airlines and Airlines that also carry passengers on a vertical axis of Share of ton-miles. Latest values: All-cargo airlines 0.4087; Airlines that also carry passengers 0.5913. Data run through 2024.
Conditions and method
An airline counts as an all-cargo airline when at least 80% of its quarters in the sample carried no passengers; every other airline counts as an airline that also carries passengers. The split is by type of airline, and an airline that also carries passengers may fly freighters of its own, so the chart does not compare freighters with passenger-aircraft holds.
T-100 did not cover domestic all-cargo flying, FedEx included, before 2002 Q4.