CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Scottie Dog]

As usual it is that time of the month for me to produce my usual statistical report. Any variation between the total monthly figures and those that I publish at https://forums4airports.com/threads/5728/page-3 (post #60) is purely due to differences in the CAA data in Tables 12.2 & 12.3

 

[IanFarquharson]

November pax should be around 870k which is 4% up on Nov 24
December should be around 925k
Which will make 2025 total 13.63m
So the 14m pax should be acheived about May 26 then hopefully 15m sometime in 2027

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

November pax should be around 870k which is 4% up on Nov 24
December should be around 925k
Which will make 2025 total 13.63m
So the 14m pax should be acheived about May 26 then hopefully 15m sometime in 2027

Any official figures on Sibiu ,Lanzarote and Jeddah numbers please

 

[mullion]

Jeddah is between 62 and 72% over last few months which is pretty low October into winter will probably be a liitle higher as Jeddah is a bit hot in summer

 

[AdamHussain07]

Yeah when I flew out in December last year and came back in January, both of my flights were full, and there was a lot of Umrah traffic on the outbound (usually 24°C-29°C), like me and my family, and a few others.

Unfortunately, I won’t be flying out this year but next year December is confirmed

 

[IanFarquharson]

Jeddah is between 62 and 72% over last few months which is pretty low October into winter will probably be a liitle higher as Jeddah is a bit hot in summer

Full inbound yesterday

 

[Matt995]

Jeddah load factor January to September 2025 is 71.3%

seat available:- 76,086
number of passengers:- 54,259

 

[IanFarquharson]

882,650 pax in November 2025 up 5.6%

 

[Paulsstrange]

Excellent figure IMO

 

[IanFarquharson]

October 2025

HEATHROW		7,366,983​		up		2.10​	%
GATWICK		3,788,286​		down		-1.98​	%
MANCHESTER		2,869,307​		up		2.13​	%
STANSTED		2,657,489​		up		0.30​	%
EDINBURGH		1,607,682​		up		9.71​	%
LUTON		1,584,398​		up		5.70​	%
BIRMINGHAM		1,244,356​		up		4.34​	%
BRISTOL		1,020,269​		up		4.12​	%
GLASGOW		775,866​		down		-0.44​	%
BELFAST INTERNATIONAL		595,468​		down		-2.02​	%
LIVERPOOL (JOHN LENNON)		526,025​		up		13.38​	%
NEWCASTLE		523,192​		up		7.27​	%
LEEDS BRADFORD		410,433​		up		1.24​	%
EAST MIDLANDS INTERNATIONAL		392,544​		down		-1.88​	%
LONDON CITY		339,500​		up		1.46​	%
ABERDEEN		212,513​		down		-0.06​	%
BELFAST CITY (GEORGE BEST)		193,552​		down		-3.39​	%
BOURNEMOUTH		134,988​		up		36.59​	%
JERSEY		123,932​		up		0.30​	%
CARDIFF WALES		94,156​		up		21.46​	%
SOUTHEND		78,789​		up		150.69​	%
INVERNESS		78,636​		up		3.02​	%
SOUTHAMPTON		75,386​		up		1.56​	%
PRESTWICK		65,282​		up		11.15​	%
EXETER		62,689​		up		44.77​	%
GUERNSEY		60,535​		up		5.24​	%
ISLE OF MAN		50,657​		down		-5.57​	%
NORWICH		43,290​		up		0.03​	%
NEWQUAY		33,419​		up		1.04​	%
TEESSIDE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT		26,479​		up		24.75​	%
SUMBURGH		24,814​		down		-6.21​	%
CITY OF DERRY (EGLINTON)		18,959​		up		27.79​	%
HUMBERSIDE		14,805​		up		13.63​	%

Size of UK Airports - 12m end 31.10.25

LHR – 84,235,719 up 1.22% - all time high

LGW – 42,938,690 down 0.09% - record was June 2019

MAN – 31,944,948 up 4.51% - all time high

STN – 29,730,983 up 0.56% - record was April 2025

LTN – 17,641,375 up 4.99% - record was January 2020

EDI – 16,798,695 up 7.73% - all time high

BHX – 13,558,242 up 6.84% - all time high

BRS – 10,771,951 up 2.17% - all time high

GLA – 8,170,206 up 2.35% - record was November 2017

BFS – 6,688,261 up 0.33% - record was February 2025

LPL – 5,551,868 up 10.85% - all time high

LBA – 4,449,457 up 6.77% - all time high

EMA – 3,935,076 down 6.27% - record was August 2008 !

 

[Scottie Dog]

With the CAA data now being available, here is my take on the latest monthly statistics. Please remember that, for an unknown reason, there is always a difference between the total passenger figure in Table 9 and the separate figures from Tables 12.1, 12.2 and 12.3.

 

[Matt995]

CAA October 2025 figures:-

Passengers:- 1,244,356 up 4.3% on October 2024
Freight:- 6,016 tonnes, up 2.1% on October 2024

passenger numbers by route, and estimated load factors:-

of course October being the end of the summer season, passenger load factors will be alot lower for the likes of Jet2, Easyjet, Ryanair, TUI etc, as outbound flights especially will be carrying less holiday passengers.

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

CAA October 2025 figures:-

Passengers:- 1,244,356 up 4.3% on October 2024
Freight:- 6,016 tonnes, up 2.1% on October 2024

passenger numbers by route, and estimated load factors:-

of course October being the end of the summer season, passenger load factors will be alot lower for the likes of Jet2, Easyjet, Ryanair, TUI etc, as outbound flights especially will be carrying less holiday passengers.

Why’s Bydgoszcz so popular?

 

[IanFarquharson]

13.65m for 2025 pax total

 

[nwoody2001]

13.65m for 2025 pax total

...and for those that don't know, that represents the BUSIEST YEAR EVERY FOR BHX! Up circa 5% on 2017 which was the airports previous record year!

 

[IanFarquharson]

November 2025 pax

HEATHROW		6,636,316​		up		2.03​	%
GATWICK		2,626,307​		down		-3.62​	%
MANCHESTER		2,191,809​		up		4.20​	%
STANSTED		2,124,932​		up		0.37​	%
LUTON		1,217,573​		up		5.92​	%
EDINBURGH		1,193,251​		up		9.45​	%
BIRMINGHAM		883,338​		up		5.67​	%
BRISTOL		616,807​		up		1.09​	%
GLASGOW		570,228​		up		2.15​	%
BELFAST INT		457,466​		up		0.19​	%
NEWCASTLE		353,287​		up		10.34​	%
LIVERPOOL		347,052​		up		5.12​	%
LONDON CITY		306,326​		down		-0.47​	%
LEEDS BRADFORD		243,622​		down		-2.69​	%
BELFAST CITY		200,573​		up		3.65​	%
ABERDEEN		173,193​		down		-1.21​	%
EAST MIDLANDS		169,568​		up		6.70​	%
JERSEY		102,215​		up		7.20​	%
SOUTHAMPTON		64,242​		up		2.42​	%
INVERNESS		57,099​		up		11.62​	%
SOUTHEND		53,103​		up		291.76​	%
BOURNEMOUTH		52,785​		up		15.96​	%
GUERNSEY		51,653​		up		6.95​	%
ISLE OF MAN		50,814​		up		6.10​	%
CARDIFF WALES		47,278​		up		12.25​	%
EXETER		28,181​		up		37.21​	%
NORWICH		24,742​		up		7.64​	%
PRESTWICK		23,203​		down		-5.87​	%
CITY OF DERRY (EGLINTON)		17,623​		up		0.29​	%
SUMBURGH		17,372​		down		-16.36​	%
NEWQUAY		16,616​		down		-19.51​	%
TEESSIDE		14,226​		up		18.15​	%
KIRKWALL		11,632​		up		6.77​	%
HUMBERSIDE		10,579​		up		3.72​	%

 

[Scottie Dog]

Following on from Ian's analysis, here is my take on the CAA data. I've used Tables 3, 9 12.1 and 12.3

 

[IanFarquharson]

January 2026 will be a record January (but only just by 3k) at around 785k.
But bearing in mind the snow closure and the radar failure issue a good result.
Without the above we would have been over 800k

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there all, any idea what Birmingham airport passenger numbers percentage increase was it from last year 2025. I'm reading 6.6 % from caa, yet doesn't add up, any assistance.

 

[IanFarquharson]

		2025	% +/-
January		781,639​	9.12%​
February		819,761​	6.18%​
March		947,510​	3.83%​
April		1,090,931​	10.29%​
May		1,263,991​	7.46%​
June		1,361,256​	7.64%​
July		1,456,744​	8.40%​
August		1,524,140​	5.08%​
September		1,346,087​	2.87%​
October		1,244,356​	4.34%​
November		883,338​	5.67%​
December		941,203​	6.24%​
Total		13,660,956​	6.33%​