US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (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 total number of itinerant airport operations (takeoffs and landings) was 3,008,290 in February 2026, compared to 2,995,539 in January. This represents an increase of 0.43 percent.
Sample. There are 422 data points in the monthly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 1991 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: airport operations peaked at 4,528,791 in August 2000; they hit a trough of 1,359,300 in April 2020; they were equal on average to 3,503,951.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 3083783.0 |
| 2026-01-31 | 2995539.0 |
| 2026-02-28 | 3008290.0 |
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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 | 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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