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 1,358,108 in January 2026, versus 1,440,426 in December 2025. This marks a reduction of 5.71 percent.
Sample. There are 421 observations in the monthly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period going from January 1991 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics computed on the entire sample: airport operations achieved a maximum of 1,469,497 in June 2025; they reached a trough of 415,067 in May 2020; they had an average value of 1,146,082.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 1426997.9466946675 |
| 2025-12-31 | 1440426.1487722718 |
| 2026-01-31 | 1358107.887386899 |
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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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