US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: US Airport Operations (FAA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the seasonally-adjusted number of itinerant airport operations (takeoffs and landings) classified in the Air Carrier category was 1,474,110 in May 2026, versus 1,481,033 in April. This constitutes a reduction of 0.47 percent.
Sample. There are 425 observations in the monthly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time going from January 1991 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics computed on the full sample: airport operations averaged 1,148,722; they reached a minimum of 412,790 in May 2020; they recorded their highest level of 1,481,033 in April 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 1448653.4251371508 |
| 2026-04-30 | 1481032.5275147944 |
| 2026-05-31 | 1474109.8561212402 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Units |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on Federal Aviation Administration data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | SM1 |
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