Enplaned Passenger Counts at Top 50 U.S. Airports

Enplanements data ranks the top 50 U.S. airports by passenger volume each year. The dataset includes geographic coordinates for each airport alongside its rank and passenger count. It is published by data.bts.gov and was last updated in February 2026.

Use Cases

• Forecast future Enplaned Passengers for an Airport based on its historical Rank and Year using time-series models.
• Analyze the geographic distribution of air travel by clustering airports based on Latitude and Longitude coordinates.
• Identify airports with the most volatile Rank changes over time to study competitive dynamics in the aviation sector.
• Correlate an airport's Enplaned Passengers with external economic indicators using the Year field for temporal alignment.

Strengths

• Includes geographic coordinates (Latitude, Longitude) for spatial analysis.
• Provides a consistent annual Rank for competitive benchmarking across airports.
• Covers the top 50 U.S. airports, a focused set of major traffic hubs.

Limitations

• Dataset size and total row count are unknown, limiting assessment of historical depth.
• Limited to the top 50 airports, excluding smaller regional airports and their traffic data.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing verification of data formats and value ranges.

Provenance

Source

data.bts.gov

Freshness

Last updated in February 2026.

Geography

Top 50 U.S. airports