US Airport Operations: Local: 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 local airport operations (takeoffs and landings) stood at 1,260,260 in February 2026, compared to 1,185,404 in the previous month. This constitutes a gain of 6.31 percent.
Sample. There are 422 data points overall in the monthly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 1991 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: airport operations had a mean of 1,285,793; they hit a peak of 1,738,720 in July 2001; they recorded a bottom of 695,784 in April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 1042927.0 |
| 2026-01-31 | 1185404.0 |
| 2026-02-28 | 1260260.0 |
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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 | 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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