The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Jan. 3 that 2024 was the United States’ second-busiest year ever for flights. The record was set before the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement that was also published through Medium, the FAA said its preliminary data showed that the United States logged roughly 16.86 million flights in the nation’s airspace in 2024, an increase of about 500,000 from the previous year’s 16.36 million.
