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London Heathrow Airport Passenger Statistics
LHR · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
84.7m
84,679,392 total
+0.8% year on year
UK rank
#1
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
7.12m
7,121,542 passengers in the month
Cancellations
1.2%
504 of 40,911 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 202684,679,392
Same period a year earlier84,008,315
London Heathrow Airport handled 84,679,392 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, up 0.8% on the same period a year earlier.
How London Heathrow Airport Compares
London Heathrow Airport84.7m
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.
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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.