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US Airport Operations: 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 airport operations (takeoffs and landings) was 4,546,633 in August 2026, versus 4,658,790 in July 2026. This represents a reduction of 2.41 percent.

Sample. There are 428 records overall in the monthly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time range extending from January 1991 to August 2026.

History. Take a look at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: airport operations recorded a minimum of 1,991,528 in April 2020; they recorded their maximum of 5,873,646 in December 1999; they were equal on average to 4,731,805.

Latest values

Date Value - Units
2026-06-30 4,648,994
2026-07-31 4,658,790
2026-08-31 4,546,633

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description US Airport Operations: 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 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Taxi (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Civil (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Military (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31

Seasonally adjusted

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Taxi (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Civil (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31
US Airport Operations: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 428 1991-01-31 2026-08-31