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US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (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 total number of itinerant airport operations (takeoffs and landings) was 3,267,624 in January 2026, versus 3,327,265 in December 2025. This marks a decrease of 1.79 percent.

Sample. In the monthly time series displayed in the figure, there are a total of 421 observations. The series covers the span of time going from January 1991 to January 2026.

History. Check out some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: airport operations recorded a maximum of 4,253,635 in December 1999; they recorded a minimum of 1,326,518 in April 2020; they had a mean value of 3,449,370.

Latest values

Date Value - Units
2025-11-30 3310200.7177176126
2025-12-31 3327264.532183706
2026-01-31 3267623.86986133

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total
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 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Taxi (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Civil (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Military (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31

Seasonally adjusted

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Taxi (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Civil (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31