(thousands of passengers)

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Notes:

Data includes passengers on international commercial flights arriving at U.S. airports and only from foreign ports to U.S. ports and, Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, and other U.S. territories.

Data compiled from flight reports required by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Total arriving passengers for 1975, 1980, and 1985 does not include Canada.

Numbers may not add to totals due to independent rounding.

Description:

KEY:  N = data do not exist; R = revised.

^a Country where passenger boarded a direct flight to the United States.

^b In March 2019, the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory against Venezuela, due to Civil unrest. Subsequently, there have been no direct flights between the U.S. and Venezuela since then.

^c The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved as of September 2010.

Source:

Total and all selected countries:

1975, 1980, and 1985: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, U.S. International Air Travel Statistics (Cambridge, MA: Annual issues), table IId. 

1990-2024: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, TranStats, Air Carriers data, T-100 International Segment, available at www.transtats.bts.gov as of Apr. 21, 2025.

United States carriers:

U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, TranStats, Air Carriers data, T-100 International Segment, available at www.transtats.bts.gov as of Apr. 21, 2025.