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Birmingham Airport Passenger Statistics
BHX · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
13.8m
13,762,657 total
+4.4% year on year
UK rank
#7
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
1.31m
1,306,203 passengers in the month
Cancellations
0.6%
57 of 8,908 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 202613,762,657
Same period a year earlier13,184,362
Birmingham Airport handled 13,762,657 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, up 4.4% on the same period a year earlier.
How Birmingham Airport Compares
Manchester Airport32.2m
London Luton Airport18.0m
Edinburgh Airport17.3m
Birmingham Airport13.8m
Bristol Airport11.0m
Rolling 12-month passenger totals to May 2026. Busiest UK airports shown for comparison.
Live cancellations
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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), UK Airport Data, May 2026. Passenger totals are terminal passengers; cancellation figures are cancelled air transport movements as reported by the CAA. Figures are published by the CAA and reproduced here with attribution.