The Department for Transport has published the dataset ‘Air traffic at UK airports’. The dataset is available here. It contains the following tables:

  • Traffic at UK airports: annual, 1950 onwards
  • Air traffic by type of service, operator and airport, UK: time series
  • Punctuality at selected UK airports: time series
  • Forecasts of terminal passengers at UK airports
  • International passenger movements at UK airports by country of embarkation or landing: time series
  • Proportion of transfer passengers at selected UK airports: time series
  • Mode of transport to selected UK airports: time series
  • Purpose of travel at selected UK airports: time series
  • UK airports (map)

All data within the series are available as Excel spreadsheets.