Aviation statistics
Data and statistics about UK airports, air passenger experiences and international airports and airlines.
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 and survey
Technical note: A comparison of aviation emissions methodologies
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 emissions statistics user engagement survey
Following the publication of the aviation emissions statistics technical note, we would like to hear your views on the value and use of publicly available UK aviation emissions statistics. This short user engagement survey will help better understand the public need for aviation emissions statistics and inform future statistical development.
Users can provide feedback by completing the survey before 30 November 2024.
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
Last updated 23 October 2024 + show all updates
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Air passenger experience of security screening for 2023 published.
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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.
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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.
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Air passenger experience of security screening 2019 added to the latest aviation statistics.
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Published 'Air passenger experience of security screening: 2018'.
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New release published.
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New release published.
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New release published.
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'Air passenger experience of security screening: 2014' published.
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First published.