Airports in the United States - Statistics & Facts
The United States boasts a lucrative aviation industry, with around 52.6 million airport operations carried out at towers run by the Federal Aviation Administration and contract towers in 2022. That year, U.S. airlines reported nearly 206.3 billion U.S. dollars in total operating revenue. This was a year-over-year increase of 5.94 percent, which illustrated the sector’s slow recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic led to a drop in passenger travel demand and, as a result, in operating revenue—which shrank by some 46.99 percent between 2019 and 2020. There were around 20,061 airports in the country in 2021, most of which were private airports.
