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London Stansted Airport Passenger Statistics
STN · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
30.0m
29,954,267 total
+0.5% year on year
UK rank
#4
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
2.83m
2,829,477 passengers in the month
Cancellations
0.2%
32 of 17,759 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 202629,954,267
Same period a year earlier29,799,045
London Stansted Airport handled 29,954,267 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, up 0.5% on the same period a year earlier.
How London Stansted Airport Compares
Manchester Airport32.2m
London Stansted Airport30.0m
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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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.