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 4,779,273 in February 2026, versus 4,652,045 in January 2026. This represents a rise of 2.73 percent.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 422 observations in total. The series covers the period extending from January 1991 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics calculated on the full sample: airport operations averaged 4,728,416; they recorded a minimum of 1,989,807 in April 2020; they reached a maximum of 5,869,810 in December 1999.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 4619926.090496293 |
| 2026-01-31 | 4652044.967888657 |
| 2026-02-28 | 4779272.768409727 |
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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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