US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: US Airport Operations (FAA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the number of itinerant airport operations (takeoffs and landings) classified in the Air Carrier category stood at 1,527,249 in May 2026, versus 1,496,250 in the previous month. This represents a gain of 2.07 percent.
Sample. In the monthly time series shown in the figure, there are a total of 425 observations. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 1991 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: airport operations averaged 1,163,765; they reached their highest level of 1,567,289 in July 2025; they reached their minimum of 427,670 in May 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 1506688.0 |
| 2026-04-30 | 1496250.0 |
| 2026-05-31 | 1527249.0 |
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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 | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Units |
| Source | Federal Aviation Administration |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Not copyrightable under U.S. law |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | SM1 |
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