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Glasgow Airport Passenger Statistics
GLA · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
8.33m
8,329,420 total
+2.2% year on year
UK rank
#9
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
817k
817,491 passengers in the month
Cancellations
0.8%
52 of 6,766 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 20268,329,420
Same period a year earlier8,151,103
Glasgow Airport handled 8,329,420 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, up 2.2% on the same period a year earlier.
How Glasgow Airport Compares
Manchester Airport32.2m
London Luton Airport18.0m
Edinburgh Airport17.3m
Birmingham Airport13.8m
Bristol Airport11.0m
Glasgow Airport8.33m
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.