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) stood at 4,931,852 in May 2026, compared to 4,861,500 in the previous month. This represents an increase of 1.45 percent.
Sample. In this monthly series, there are 425 data points. The time period covered by the series extends from January 1991 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: airport operations averaged 4,791,786; they hit a maximum of 6,221,033 in August 2001; they hit a minimum of 2,055,084 in April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 4861904.0 |
| 2026-04-30 | 4861500.0 |
| 2026-05-31 | 4931852.0 |
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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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