PSA Airlines

How it changed

PSA Airlines carried 14.0 million passengers in 2025. Its busiest year was 2019, at 15.1 million.

Its average flight had 32 seats in 2002 and 72 in 2025, a sign of larger aircraft replacing smaller ones. The average passenger flew 343 miles per segment in 2002 and 475 in 2025, and 80% of its seat-miles were filled in 2025.

Who it flew for

PSA flew for US Airways until the 2015 merger with American and has flown for American since. It was owned by the same group as the airline it flew for throughout, so no estimate of a split is needed.

The fleet

PSA Airlines operated 149 passenger aircraft of its own in 2025. The average age was 13.1 years: 0% of the aircraft were under five years old and 26% were twenty or older. The oldest was a Bombardier CRJ-700 built in 2001.

In 2006 the average age was 6.7 years across 167 aircraft. It's older now by 6.4 years, and the fleet is smaller.

PSA Airlines aircraft by model, 2025

Model	Aircraft	Average seats	Average age
Bombardier CRJ-900	89	90	9.0
Bombardier CRJ-700	60	70	19.2

Fuel

In 2025 PSA Airlines burned 209 million gallons of jet fuel, which is 39.7 seat-miles per gallon and about 0.306 kg of CO2 per passenger-mile. Over 500 miles that's roughly 153 kg per passenger. Small regional aircraft burn more fuel per seat than the mainline jets, and a short hop spends a larger share of its fuel on take-off and climb, so these figures aren't graded against the airlines on the main list. Their flying and fuel are counted in the airlines whose names are on the tickets.

Year-by-year figures

Year	Passengers (millions)	Departures (thousands)	Seats per flight	Average trip (miles)	Load factor	Seat-miles (billions)	Seat-miles per gallon
2025	14.0	245	71.8	475	80.3%	8.30	39.7
2024	13.8	231	72.2	433	82.7%	7.19	39.3
2023	11.6	197	72.2	431	81.7%	6.11	39.6
2022	12.2	211	71.7	422	80.6%	6.40	39.7
2021	12.5	223	71.3	423	78.5%	6.71	40.1
2020	8.5	188	70.4	414	64.2%	5.52	41.6
2019	15.1	288	66.7	402	78.8%	7.71	39.3
2018	13.6	270	65.8	388	76.6%	6.91	39.3
2017	12.7	245	66.6	389	77.3%	6.38	40.3
2016	11.7	228	65.9	393	78.1%	5.86	41.4
2015	9.2	178	62.3	384	82.7%	4.25	39.6
2014	5.6	123	56.2	353	80.6%	2.45	41.7
2013	4.9	116	54.9	377	76.6%	2.41	39.3
2012	5.1	121	54.8	374	76.7%	2.47	39.4
2011	4.9	116	55.4	358	76.1%	2.30	38.0
2010	5.0	121	55.8	340	74.2%	2.29	37.8
2009	4.8	122	55.6	327	71.3%	2.21	37.2
2008	4.8	122	55.6	339	70.9%	2.28	37.1
2007	5.0	124	55.7	338	73.7%	2.29	37.0
2006	5.2	129	55.7	354	74.0%	2.48	38.1
2005	4.2	119	55.5	379	65.8%	2.44	38.6
2004	2.2	80	46.1	357	62.2%	1.29	61.5
2003	1.2	64	32.2	325	57.4%	0.67	43.4*
2002	0.3	16	32.0	343	59.8%	0.18	42.6*

Regionals with shared partners

These profiles have a partner airline in common with PSA Airlines in at least one data year. The partner split is estimated, and the airlines may have flown for the shared network at different times.

• Air Wisconsin
• Atlantic Southeast Airlines
• Chautauqua Airlines
• Colgan Air
• Comair
• CommuteAir
• Compass Airlines
• Endeavor Air
• Envoy Air
• ExpressJet
• GoJet Airlines
• Independence Air
• Mesa Airlines
• Mesaba Airlines
• Piedmont Airlines
• Republic Airways
• Shuttle America
• SkyWest Airlines
• Trans States Airlines

Nearby in fuel efficiency

Neighbours in the seat-miles per gallon table, using each airline's last data year. Fuel estimates are marked on the profiles, and these aren't same-year rankings.

Airline references

• Wikipedia: PSA Airlines
• Official site: PSA Airlines

Source: US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), T-100 traffic and Schedule T-2 fuel filings; US EPA jet-fuel CO2 factor. Methods and allocation limits.

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