The Airport Operator - Autumn 2024
06 September 2024
A total of 3.2m passengers flew through Manchester Airport in July, the busiest July the airport has ever seen.
It was the same story at London Stansted Airport, where the start of the peak summer holiday getaway helped the airport to record its busiest ever July as 2.9m passengers passed through the terminal.
For Manchester it was the tenth consecutive record-breaking month and in the last 12 months 29.6m passengers flew into or out of the airport. The most popular destination in July was Palma de Mallorca, followed by Dubai and Amsterdam.
For Stansted the monthly passenger total was an increase of 3.4% on the same month last year, and the third busiest month in the airport’s history. The 12-month total to the end of July stood at 29.12m passengers, an increase of 8.5% on the previous year. The top destinations in the month were Dublin, Istanbul and Palma de Mallorca, with Spain, Italy and Turkey the most popular countries.
