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Edinburgh Airport Passenger Statistics
EDI · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
17.3m
17,325,775 total
+7.2% year on year
UK rank
#6
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
1.66m
1,655,053 passengers in the month
Cancellations
0.4%
52 of 11,670 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 202617,325,775
Same period a year earlier16,167,566
Edinburgh Airport handled 17,325,775 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, up 7.2% on the same period a year earlier.
How Edinburgh 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.