List of busiest airports in the United Kingdom
This list of the 20 busiest airports is ranked in order of passenger traffic.[1]
| Rank 2019 |
Airport | City or County | Passengers 2019 |
Passengers 2018 |
Change 2019 / 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | London Heathrow | London | 80,890,031 | 80,123,537 |  1.0%
|
| 2. | London Gatwick | West Sussex | 46,576,473 | 46,086,089 | 1.1%
|
| 3. | Manchester Airport | Manchester | 29,397,357 | 28,292,797 | 3.9%
|
| 4. | London Stansted | Essex | 28,124,292 | 27,996,116 | 0.5%
|
| 5. | London Luton | Luton | 18,216,207 | 16,769,634 | 8.6%
|
| 6. | Edinburgh Airport | Edinburgh | 14,737,497 | 14,294,305 | 3.1%
|
| 7. | Birmingham Airport | Birmingham | 12,650,607 | 12,457,051 | 1.6%
|
| 8. | Bristol Airport | Bristol | 8,964,242 | 8,699,529 | 3.0%
|
| 9. | Glasgow Airport | Glasgow | 8,847,100 | 9,656,227 |  8.4%
|
| 10. | Belfast Airport | Belfast | 6,278,563 | 6,268,960 | 0.2%
|
| 11. | Newcastle Airport | Newcastle upon Tyne | 5,203,624 | 5,334,095 | 2.4%
|
| 12. | London City Airport | London | 5,122,271 | 4,820,403 | 6.3%
|
| 13. | Liverpool Airport | Liverpool | 5,045,991 | 5,046,995 |  0.0%
|
| 14. | East Midlands Airport | Leicestershire | 4,675,411 | 4,873,831 | 4.1%
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| 15. | Leeds Bradford Airport | Yorkshire | 3,992,862 | 4,038,889 | 1.1%
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| 16. | Aberdeen Airport | Aberdeen | 2,912,883 | 3,056,018 | 4.7%
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| 17. | Belfast City | Belfast | 2,455,259 | 2,511,261 | 2.2%
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| 18. | London Southend | Essex | 2,035,535 | 1,480,139 | 37.5%
|
| 19. | Southampton | Southampton | 1,781,457 | 1,991,014 | 10.5%
|
| 20. | Cardiff | Vale of Glamorgan | 1,407,862 | 1,581,131 | 11.0%
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List Of Busiest Airports In The United Kingdom Media
Queue of aircraft for take-off at Heathrow Airport, which handled 60 million passengers in 2022
Gatwick Airport, the second busiest airport after Heathrow
Manchester Airport, the third busiest airport in the UK and busiest of the non-London airports
References
- ↑ CAA stats 2019. [1] Archived 2021-08-02 at the Wayback Machine