US Airport Operations: 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 airport operations (takeoffs and landings) was 5,013,904 in August 2026, compared to 5,151,316 in July 2026. This constitutes a reduction of 2.67 percent.
Sample. There are 428 observations in the monthly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time period extending from January 1991 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: airport operations had a mean value of 4,793,581; they hit a trough of 2,055,084 in April 2020; they reached their maximum of 6,221,033 in August 2001.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 4,978,277 |
| 2026-07-31 | 5,151,316 |
| 2026-08-31 | 5,013,904 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | US Airport Operations: 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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