Hy-Line Cruises

Ferryboat at Hy-Line Cruises

Hy-Line Cruises carried 964,973 ferryboat boardings in FY2025 at $24.88 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Ferryboat Hyannis, MA
FY2025 boardings
965K
+3.9% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$24.88
-3.5% nationwide $17.28
Subsidy per ride
$-13.23
-18% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
153.2%
+6.7% nationwide 26.8%
Passenger miles
27M
average trip 27.93 miles
Operating cost
$24M
Vehicles in service
4
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
93.06
10.4K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 2026.

This year against the last five

Same months on one axis, so seasonality does not read as a trend

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every ferryboat operator in the country.

Cost per ride

This agency against the national figure for the same mode

Fare recovery

Share of operating cost covered by fares

Directly operated and purchased service, FY2025

NTD reports these separately. An agency that contracts a service out reports the contract price, which bundles costs a directly operating agency reports line by line.

Service Boardings Passenger miles Revenue hours Operating cost Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery Vehicles
Directly operated 964,973 26,955,387 10,369 $24,010,381 $24.88 $-13.23 153.2% 4

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Hy-Line Cruises reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 964,973 26,955,387 189,434 10,369 $24,010,381 $36,775,922 $24.88 $-13.23 153.2%
2024 928,922 25,896,935 191,630 10,378 $23,940,866 $34,353,683 $25.77 $-11.21 143.5%
2023 891,899 24,769,558 188,608 10,289 $23,757,628 $30,542,402 $26.64 $-7.61 128.6%
2022 770,496 21,349,864 162,994 10,094 $18,383,764 $25,972,659 $23.86 $-9.85 141.3%
2021 501,689 13,993,168 151,010 8,927 $14,986,702 $16,704,121 $29.87 $-3.42 111.5%
2020 812,977 22,524,771 165,788 10,122 $18,949,762 $25,333,949 $23.31 $-7.85 133.7%
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