Adding It All Up

Year-over-year runway incursions at the highest-volume airports in the United States increased 3.2 percent, from 497 in fiscal 2016 to 513 in fiscal 2017, the most recent year for which final data are available, according to data from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).¹

The data, included in the FAA’s Air Traffic by the Numbers, published in November 2018, reviewed runway incursions and surface incidents at the country’s Core 30 airports — the airports in major metropolitan areas with the highest volume of traffic. In fiscal 2017, which ended Sept. 30 of that year, more incursions occurred at Detroit Metropolitan Airport — 45, nearly double the 25 incursions recorded the previous year — than any of the other Core 30 airports (Figure 1).