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Airport passengers

Tiree · May 2026

Tiree handled 1,105 terminal passengers in May 2026 — down 6% on May 2025, when it handled 1,181.

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.

1,105

terminal passengers

Passengers beginning or ending a journey at Tiree, May 2026

41 more passed through in transit and are not in this figure

That made it the 41st-busiest of the 47 UK airports reporting to the CAA in May 2026.

Its busiest month on our record was July 2019, at 1,543. 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. 30 airports between
    41stTiree1,105
  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 2019151,543 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 20261,10541down 6% on May 2025
Apr 20269269down 10% on April 2025
Mar 20267037little changed on March 2025
Feb 202655928down 9% on February 2025
Jan 202659932up 21% on January 2025
Dec 202555915up 26% on December 2024
Nov 20256607up 6% on November 2024
Oct 202573611up 15% on October 2024
Sep 20251,0609little changed on September 2024
Aug 20251,1824up 3% on August 2024
Jul 20251,32213down 2% on July 2024
Jun 202597420down 5% on June 2024
May 20251,18117up 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.