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Cardiff Airport Passenger Statistics
CWL · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
1.01m
1,011,520 total
+13.5% year on year
UK rank
#19
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
111k
110,944 passengers in the month
Cancellations
0.8%
6 of 783 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 20261,011,520
Same period a year earlier890,946
Cardiff Airport handled 1,011,520 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, up 13.5% on the same period a year earlier.
How Cardiff Airport Compares
Manchester Airport32.2m
London Luton Airport18.0m
Edinburgh Airport17.3m
Birmingham Airport13.8m
Bristol Airport11.0m
Cardiff Airport1.01m
Rolling 12-month passenger totals to May 2026. Busiest UK airports shown for comparison.
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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.