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Southampton Airport Passenger Statistics
SOU · Official CAA data · May 2026
Passengers (12 months)
888k
888,438 total
+1.8% year on year
UK rank
#20
of 43 reporting UK airports
May 2026
83k
82,631 passengers in the month
Cancellations
3.4%
52 of 1,514 flights cancelled
Passenger Trend (rolling 12 months)
12 months to May 2026888,438
Same period a year earlier872,616
Southampton Airport handled 888,438 passengers in the 12 months to May 2026, up 1.8% on the same period a year earlier.
How Southampton Airport Compares
Manchester Airport32.2m
London Luton Airport18.0m
Edinburgh Airport17.3m
Birmingham Airport13.8m
Bristol Airport11.0m
Southampton Airport888k
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.