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) was 4,544,629 in August 2026, compared to 4,658,785 in July 2026. This constitutes a reduction of 2.45 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. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: airport operations hit a minimum of 1,991,526 in April 2020; they hit a maximum of 5,873,639 in December 1999; they were equal on average to 4,731,801.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 4,648,989 |
| 2026-07-31 | 4,658,785 |
| 2026-08-31 | 4,544,629 |
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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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