In 2021, the average American traveled 9 times farther by road than by air
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In both instances, the distances to be compared are person miles. The derivation of person miles traveled by air is straightforward from the available monthly data: In 2021, the airline revenue passenger miles for domestic operations totaled 572 billion miles. Therefore, we will rely here on the 2020 data.
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