Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Blackpool · May 2026

Blackpool handled 2,377 terminal passengers in May 2026 — up 98% on May 2025, when it handled 1,198.

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.

2,377

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Blackpool, May 2026

That made it the 38th-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

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. 27 airports between
    38thBlackpool2,377
  11. 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 201902,377 across 83 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 20262,3770up 98% on May 2025
Apr 20262,2960up 18% on April 2025
Mar 20261,8530up 28% on March 2025
Feb 20261,3190down 21% on February 2025
Jan 20261,7690up 66% on January 2025
Dec 20251,7600down 2% on December 2024
Nov 20251,8620up 3% on November 2024
Oct 20251,6540down 13% on October 2024
Sep 20251,6100up 3% on September 2024
Aug 20251,5150up 3% on August 2024
Jul 20251,2890down 20% on July 2024
Jun 20251,5830up 16% on June 2024
May 20251,1980down 15% 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.