US Airport Operations: Local: 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 local airport operations (takeoffs and landings) was 1,321,116 in August 2026, versus 1,323,031 in July. This marks a reduction of 0.14 percent.
Sample. There are 428 data points overall in the monthly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the period going from January 1991 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: airport operations had a mean of 1,278,692; they reached their highest level of 1,641,408 in November 1999; they recorded a minimum of 658,881 in April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1,330,986 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1,323,031 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1,321,116 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | US Airport Operations: Local: 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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