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) was 1,185,404 in January 2026, compared to 1,042,927 in December 2025. This represents an increase of 13.66 percent.
Sample. In the monthly time series presented in the plot, there are 421 observations. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 1991 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: airport operations averaged 1,285,854; they hit a minimum of 695,784 in April 2020; they hit a peak of 1,738,720 in July 2001.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 1253607.0 |
| 2025-12-31 | 1042927.0 |
| 2026-01-31 | 1185404.0 |
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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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