Airports by the numbers
5,159 landing places are open to the public, 590 of them with a control tower. The FAA counts takeoffs and landings for about 3,276 of them: 103,070,949 a year in all in fiscal year 2024, with 854,738,304 passengers boarding.
Busiest by takeoffs and landings
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International leads with 791,067 movements a year.
The table (30 rows)
Most passengers
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International boards 45,449,813 passengers a year, the most in the country.
The table (30 rows)
Most based aircraft
The table (30 rows)
Airports by state
Texas has the most public-use airports (385), then Alaska and California.
Based aircraft by state
By kind
The FAA's forecast
The FAA's Terminal Area Forecast (2025 edition) records actual counts to fiscal year 2024 and forecasts the years after (drawn lighter). Passengers boarding grew from 636,997,289 in 2000 to 858,763,177 in 2024, and the FAA expects 1,240,929,686 by 2044.
Takeoffs and landings, actual and forecast
Where the numbers come from
- FAA airport file (NASR), edition 2026-10-01
- FAA Terminal Area Forecast, 2025 edition
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