2018 U.S.-Booked Air
Volume: $315 million
Primary Air Supplier: United
Consolidated Global TMC: BCD
Tech giant Apple’s U.S.-booked air volume increased
substantially in 2018, according to a BTN estimate. According to an unintended
January disclosure of internal data, by United Apple spends about $150 million
annually on air travel on United Airlines, including $35 million alone on the
San Francisco-Shanghai route with an average 50 business class seats traveled
daily. The company’s greenhouse gas emissions generated by business travel
increased 14 percent in fiscal year 2018, illustrating Apple’s increase in
travel. Apple last year began calculating its emissions differently to better
account for classes of service in air travel. For fiscal year 2018, Apple
reported 337,340 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent generated by its
business air travel and car rentals. Net sales during Apple’s 2018 fiscal year,
which ended Sept. 30, 2018, increased nearly 16 percent to $266.6 billion.
However, revenue for the last three calendar months of 2018, declined 5 percent
year over year to $84.3 billion. Apple had about 132,000 full-time equivalent
employees at the end of its 2018 fiscal year, up from 123,000 one year before.