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US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly

This series is part of the dataset: US Airport Operations (FAA)

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Latest updates. In the United States, the seasonally-adjusted number of itinerant airport operations (takeoffs and landings) classified in the Air Carrier category was 1,403,945 in February 2026, compared to 1,358,451 in the previous month. This represents a gain of 3.35 percent.

Sample. The monthly series presented in the plot has 422 data points. The period covered by the series is from January 1991 to February 2026.

History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: airport operations reached their minimum of 415,172 in May 2020; they hit a peak of 1,469,868 in June 2025; they were equal on average to 1,146,389.

Latest values

Date Value - Units
2025-12-31 1440789.9874495785
2026-01-31 1358450.9332124747
2026-02-28 1403945.4792003904

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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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Seasonally unadjusted

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Taxi (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Local: Civil (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Local: Military (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Local: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28

Seasonally adjusted

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Taxi (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Local: Civil (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Local: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Local: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28
US Airport Operations: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 422 1991-01-31 2026-02-28