US Airport Operations: 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 airport operations (takeoffs and landings) stood at 4,612,206 in May 2026, compared to 4,709,085 in the previous month. This marks a decrease of 2.06 percent.
Sample. The monthly time series displayed in the chart has 425 observations. The time range covered by the series goes from January 1991 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: airport operations hit a minimum of 1,990,654 in April 2020; they attained a maximum of 5,871,069 in December 1999; they had a mean of 4,729,553.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 4722637.731483766 |
| 2026-04-30 | 4709085.0163005525 |
| 2026-05-31 | 4612205.954657634 |
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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 |
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