US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (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 total number of itinerant airport operations (takeoffs and landings) was 3,222,441 in August 2026, compared to 3,332,089 in July 2026. This constitutes a decrease of 3.29 percent.
Sample. The monthly time series shown in the graph has 428 observations overall. The series covers the span of time going from January 1991 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we computed on the entire sample: airport operations had an average value of 3,449,590; they reached a trough of 1,327,842 in April 2020; they reached their highest level of 4,255,684 in February 2000.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3,314,402 |
| 2026-07-31 | 3,332,089 |
| 2026-08-31 | 3,222,441 |
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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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