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Manchester Airport Passenger Statistics
MAN · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
32.2m
32,188,667 total
+2.3% year on year
UK rank
#3
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
2.93m
2,930,308 passengers in the month
Cancellations
0.3%
62 of 18,286 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 202632,188,667
Same period a year earlier31,463,245
Manchester Airport handled 32,188,667 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, up 2.3% on the same period a year earlier.
How Manchester 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.