Every day, FAA's Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides service to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. With an airspace system as vast and complex as ours, it is helpful to have an easy-to-reference source for relevant facts and information. View the infographic below for a glimpse into ATO, or for more information, see Air Traffic by the Numbers (PDF).* based on FY19 figures
16,405,000
flights handled by
the FAA yearly
45,000
average daily flights
handled by the FAA
10,000,000+
scheduled passenger
flights yearly
5,400
aircraft in the sky at
peak operational times
24,100,000
square miles of
oceanic airspace
5,300,000
square miles of united
states domestic airspace
520
airport traffic
control towers
19,633
u.s. airports
5,082 public airports
14,551 private airports
21
air route traffic
control centers
14,000+
air traffic
controllers
2,900,000
passengers fly every
day in and out of
u.s. airports
167,000+
fixed-wing general
aviation aircraft
10,000 rotorcraft
34,200
experimental
lightcraft
25,506,000
general aviation
flight hours per year
44,500,000,000
pounds of freight
per year
10,857,000
u.s. jobs generated
from aviation
147
terminal radar
approach control
facilities
5.2%
aviation contributed
to the u.s. gross
domestic product
$488 Billion
annual earnings
from aviation