NAICS 481211 nonscheduled chartered passenger air obligations

Charter passenger air as a contract tag

NAICS 481211 covers nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation. Contracting officers use it when the principal purpose is moving people on charter aircraft rather than buying tickets on scheduled carriers as a residual travel expense coded elsewhere. Deep sea freight (483111) moves cargo by ocean; this $7,402,492,185.52 moves passengers by air under the charter tag.

Eight thousand four hundred twenty-two awards produced a mean of about $878,947. That average can mix short charter legs with larger airlift vehicles. The packet does not count passengers, flight hours, or aircraft tail numbers. Those operational fields are outside the industry aggregate.

Nonscheduled freight air transportation, when tagged, would use a different air-transportation NAICS. A mixed passenger-and-cargo charter will carry one principal code. If that code is 481211, incidental cargo on the same action sits in this total.

Air and ocean transportation NAICS codes follow mode and cargo-versus-passenger. Nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation (481211) is the charter-passenger tag at $7,402,492,185.52 on 8,422 awards, about $878,947 per award. Deep sea freight (483111) is ocean cargo. Aircraft manufacturing is a 336 goods class. This $7.4 billion is charter passenger flying tagged 481211.

Airlift vehicles and payment timing

Charter contracts often use on-call vehicles. Agencies can obligate estimated lift while actual flying — and cash outlays — depends on missions tasked. Treating $7.4 billion as tickets already flown would overstate cash on unused capacity.

The 8,422-award count is not a flight count. Multiple sorties can sit inside one award. Dividing dollars by awards is not a cost per passenger.

What this air code does not include

Aircraft manufacturing (336411 and related codes on other hubs) measures building planes, not flying them. Airport construction uses construction NAICS. Those pages are not subsets of $7,402,492,185.52.

Travel grants or assistance that reimburse tickets often lack NAICS and do not enter this industry total.

Ordinary scheduled-ticket travel bought as a travel transaction may never receive NAICS 481211. This hub is the tagged charter-contract slice, not a complete federal air-travel bill. Assistance that reimburses tickets often lacks NAICS and stays outside.

How to use the 481211 hub

Read $7.4 billion and 8,422 awards as the charter-passenger tag, then open the nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation industry page for award-level fields. Rank air-transportation codes on the all-industries index separately from manufacturing codes.

This guide does not add routes or passenger counts because they are not in the facts object.

Tagging limits

Scheduled service bought as a GSA travel transaction may never receive 481211. This hub is the tagged charter-contract slice, not a complete federal air-travel bill.

Extract updates will move $7,402,492,185.52 and 8,422 with USAspending.

How to read charter dollars without inventing passengers

No passenger, flight-hour, or tail-number field appears in the packet facts. The usable coordinates are $7.4 billion obligated and 8,422 awards. Dividing those figures does not yield a ticket price.

Open the nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation industry page for descriptions. Rank air-transportation codes separately from manufacturing codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on unused on-call capacity.

Chartered passenger air at $7,402,492,185.52 on 8,422 awards is a lift tag, not a ticket census. The mean of about $878,947 is not a fare and not a cost per flight hour. Passenger counts are not in the packet.

Ocean freight, aircraft manufacturing, and ordinary scheduled-ticket travel coded elsewhere are different questions. This hub is NAICS 481211 contract awards. Open the industry page for descriptions. Cite USAspending.gov. Assistance that reimburses tickets often lacks NAICS. On-call vehicles can show obligated balances that have not yet flown.

Eight thousand four hundred twenty-two charter-passenger awards at $7,402,492,185.52 are lift contracts, not a GSA travel-ticket dump. Scheduled-service purchases that never received 481211 are outside this hub by construction. Ocean freight and aircraft manufacturing are other classes. No passenger field exists in the packet, so this guide does not invent one. Open the industry page for descriptions stored by USAspending.gov.

The 8,422-award count next to $7,402,492,185.52 is charter passenger lift as tagged. Rank air-transportation NAICS separately from manufacturing NAICS on the all-industries index so flying and building stay apart.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 481211?

Nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation contracts in USAspending show $7,402,492,185.52 in obligations across 8,422 awards. That is a charter-passenger tag, not scheduled-airline tickets coded elsewhere and not ocean freight. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded.

What is the average charter-air award?

Dividing $7,402,492,185.52 by 8,422 awards yields about $878,947. That mean is not a ticket price or a cost per flight hour. Short charters and large airlift vehicles share the average. The packet does not publish passengers, hours, or a median.

Does this include cargo airlift?

Only incidental cargo on actions whose principal NAICS is 481211. Dedicated freight air transportation uses other codes. Deep sea freight is NAICS 483111. This $7.4 billion is the chartered passenger-air tag. Use each transportation industry page for its own total.

Are employee airline tickets in this $7.4 billion?

Not necessarily. Many federal travel purchases never receive NAICS 481211. This aggregate is contract awards tagged to nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation. Ordinary scheduled-ticket travel may sit in other spending tables. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. Ordinary scheduled-ticket travel may sit in other spending tables that never received this charter NAICS; this hub is the 481211 contract slice only.