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US Airport Operations: Local: 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 local airport operations (takeoffs and landings) was 1,395,217 in January 2026, versus 1,300,163 in December 2025. This constitutes a rise of 7.31 percent.

Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 421 data points. The time period covered by the series is from January 1991 to January 2026.

History. Take a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: airport operations registered a minimum of 659,096 in April 2020; they reached their highest level of 1,638,495 in November 1999; they averaged 1,276,638.

Latest values

Date Value - Units
2025-11-30 1325106.446008878
2025-12-31 1300162.5901090533
2026-01-31 1395217.0061971708

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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

Series in the same data set

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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