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 was 1,525,119 in August 2026, compared to 1,580,369 in July. This represents a decrease of 3.50 percent.
Sample. There are 428 data points overall in the monthly series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series goes from January 1991 to August 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: airport operations had a mean value of 1,166,412; they hit a trough of 427,670 in May 2020; they hit a maximum of 1,580,369 in July 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,518,966 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,580,369 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,525,119 |
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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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