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Airport passengers

Alderney · May 2026

Alderney handled 4,011 terminal passengers in May 2026 — down 7% on May 2025, when it handled 4,291.

Read from the Civil Aviation Authority’s monthly airport data, table 09 — terminal and transit passengers, in the vintage we archived on 11 August 2026.

4,011

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Alderney, May 2026

Alderney reports to the CAA but is not in the United Kingdom, so it is not ranked against UK airports.

Its busiest month on our record was August 2019, at 7,223. The record starts in January 2019.

The busiest UK airports in May 2026

  1. 1stHeathrow7,120,998
  2. 2ndGatwick3,738,837
  3. 3rdManchester2,930,308
  4. 4thStansted2,829,477
  5. 5thLuton1,753,706
  6. 6thEdinburgh1,654,718
  7. 7thBirmingham1,306,203
  8. 8thBristol1,077,177
  9. 9thGlasgow817,491
  10. out of 47 UK airports reporting that month

Terminal passengers, as published. Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man report to the CAA but are not in the United Kingdom; they have pages here and are left out of this ranking.

Every month on record

Jan 20191207,223 across 89 readings on recordMay 2026

One cell per month from Jan 2019 to May 2026, shaded from this airport’s own quietest month to its busiest. The record starts in January 2019, which is far enough back to hold a pre-2020 comparison.

The last thirteen months

MonthTerminal passengersIn transitOn the same month a year earlier
May 20264,0110down 7% on May 2025
Apr 20263,6940down 12% on April 2025
Mar 20263,0630down 15% on March 2025
Feb 20262,4890down 15% on February 2025
Jan 20262,2460down 9% on January 2025
Dec 20253,0060up 7% on December 2024
Nov 20253,3190up 10% on November 2024
Oct 20254,0490down 1% on October 2024
Sep 20254,8310up 2% on September 2024
Aug 20255,6730up 6% on August 2024
Jul 20254,6980down 5% on July 2024
Jun 20254,3860down 5% on June 2024
May 20254,2910down 6% on May 2024

Each month is compared with the same month a year earlier, which is the comparison the CAA makes. The percentage here is ours, calculated from the two months in our own series rather than taken from the publisher’s comparison column.