Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Airport passengers

Lydd · May 2026

Lydd handled 3 terminal passengers in May 2026. We hold no May a year earlier to compare it with.

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.

3

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Lydd, May 2026

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

Its busiest month on our record was July 2021, at 31. 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. 36 airports between
    47thLydd3
  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 2019031 across 29 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 202630
Apr 202600down 100% on April 2025
Mar 2026not published
Feb 2026not published
Jan 202600down 100% on January 2025
Dec 202510down 80% on December 2024
Nov 2025not published
Oct 2025not published
Sep 2025not published
Aug 2025not published
Jul 2025not published
Jun 202520
May 2025not published

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.