Airport World
Joe Bates
11 June 2024
London’s Heathrow and Stansted airports have set new traffic records – the former for handling 81.5 million passengers in a 12 month period, and Stansted for experiencing its busiest ever May.
Heathrow’s milestone was reached as the UK hub welcomed 7.2 million passengers last month, the first time May traffic has ever exceeded seven million. While Stansted says that a bumper half-term holiday week proved the catalyst for it recording an all-time high of 2.7 million passengers in May.
As a result of May’s throughput, Stansted’s 12-month rolling total to the end of May stood at 28.8 million passengers, an increase of 9.8% on the previous year.
May’s significant upturn in traffic indicates that both airports will experience busy summers, with Heathrow forecasting that it could handle a record 30 million passengers.
