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 3,293,215 in May 2026, versus 3,346,480 in April 2026. This represents a reduction of 1.59 percent.
Sample. There are 425 records overall in the monthly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 1991 to May 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: airport operations recorded a minimum of 1,327,520 in April 2020; they reached their highest level of 4,254,653 in February 2000; they had a mean of 3,448,480.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 3373781.8194048023 |
| 2026-04-30 | 3346480.4259922886 |
| 2026-05-31 | 3293215.3557929494 |
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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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