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 1,403,945 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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