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East Midlands Airport Passenger Statistics
EMA · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
3.99m
3,987,210 total
-0.7% year on year
UK rank
#14
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
456k
456,030 passengers in the month
Cancellations
0.5%
20 of 4,340 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 20263,987,210
Same period a year earlier4,016,090
East Midlands Airport handled 3,987,210 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, down 0.7% on the same period a year earlier.
How East Midlands Airport Compares
Manchester Airport32.2m
London Luton Airport18.0m
Edinburgh Airport17.3m
Birmingham Airport13.8m
Bristol Airport11.0m
East Midlands Airport3.99m
Rolling 12-month passenger totals to May 2026. Busiest UK airports shown for comparison.
Live cancellations
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UK airport traffic report
Monthly passenger figures and risers & fallers →
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.