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 1,332,432 in January 2026, versus 1,481,178 in December 2025. This constitutes a decrease of 10.04 percent.
Sample. There are 421 observations overall in the monthly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range extending from January 1991 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics computed on the entire sample: airport operations reached a trough of 427,670 in May 2020; they peaked at 1,567,289 in July 2025; they had a mean value of 1,161,020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 1407167.0 |
| 2025-12-31 | 1481178.0 |
| 2026-01-31 | 1332432.0 |
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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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