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London Gatwick Airport Passenger Statistics
LGW · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
42.1m
42,076,214 total
-3.1% year on year
UK rank
#2
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
3.74m
3,739,339 passengers in the month
Cancellations
0.4%
102 of 24,015 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 202642,076,214
Same period a year earlier43,415,272
London Gatwick Airport handled 42,076,214 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, down 3.1% on the same period a year earlier.
How London Gatwick Airport Compares
London Gatwick Airport42.1m
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.