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Airport passengers

Jersey · May 2026

Jersey handled 138,157 terminal passengers in May 2026 — up 2% on May 2025, when it handled 135,233.

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.

138,157

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Jersey, May 2026

Jersey 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 197,552. 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 2019802197,552 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 2026138,1570up 2% on May 2025
Apr 2026125,9890up 3% on April 2025
Mar 2026105,2670up 1% on March 2025
Feb 202689,439191up 2% on February 2025
Jan 202680,3210up 4% on January 2025
Dec 2025105,5320up 6% on December 2024
Nov 2025102,2141up 7% on November 2024
Oct 2025123,90626little changed on October 2024
Sep 2025139,2359down 2% on September 2024
Aug 2025164,22612down 6% on August 2024
Jul 2025152,58511down 6% on July 2024
Jun 2025137,9680down 4% on June 2024
May 2025135,2331down 3% 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.