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Aviation statistics

Data and statistics about UK airports, air passenger experiences and international airports and airlines.

From:
Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority
Published
31 July 2013
Last updated
23 October 2024 — See all updates

Aviation statistics user engagement survey

We are launching a short survey to help identify our external users, better understand who they are, assess whether our statistics meet their needs, and possible areas for improvement. Whilst there are certain limitations to what we are able to immediately action, such as data availability, quality and commercial sensitivity, all responses will be taken into consideration. 

Users can provide feedback by completing the survey before Friday 7 February 2025.

Latest aviation statistics

Aviation statistics provides information on activity at UK airports, passengers, volume of freight handled, punctuality, UK airlines, major international airports, casualties caused by aviation and air proximity incidents, passenger experience of air travel, security screening and emissions from aviation.

Most of these statistics are collected by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and other organisations external to the department.

Aviation statistics information on current and previous air passenger experience statistics are available.

Aviation emissions statistics methodology

The Department for Transport has published a technical note comparing publicly available methodologies for estimating UK aviation emissions.

Alongside UK official territorial greenhouse gas emissions statistics published by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, there are several other sources available to the public. This note is designed to increase transparency around how aviation emissions are calculated.

Aviation statistics: data tables

About the aviation statistics data and reports

All of the aviation statistics published are official statistics. The department’s view is that these statistics, which are not designated as accredited official statistics, are robust and have been produced to a suitable standard.

Updates to this page

Published 31 July 2013
Last updated 23 October 2024 + show all updates

  1. Air passenger experience of security screening for 2023 published.

  2. Call-to-action box updated to the Latest aviation statistics section on page, detailing why there is no 2020, 2021 and 2022 update for the air passenger experience of security screening publication. Links to where users can view the source data, and where updates to release schedules from DfT, affected by COVID-19, can be found.

  3. Call-to-action box added to the Latest aviation statistics section on page, detailing why there is no 2020 and 2021 update for the air passenger experience of security screening publication. Links to where users can view the source data, and where updates to release schedules from DfT, affected by COVID-19, can be found.

  4. Air passenger experience of security screening 2019 added to the latest aviation statistics.

  5. Published 'Air passenger experience of security screening: 2018'.

  6. New release published.

  7. New release published.

  8. New release published.

  9. 'Air passenger experience of security screening: 2014' published.

  10. First published.

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