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Aviation statistics

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

Latest aviation statistics

Updates to “Air passenger experience of security screening” publication

We are unable to produce the 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions of the “Air passenger experience of security screening” publication.

Data for this publication is drawn from Civil Aviation Authority Departing Passenger Survey. The Departing Passenger Survey was suspended from March 2020 to June 2021 because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, so data is not available for this period. Data collection has since partially resumed, but using a shortened survey. From July 2021 to December 2022, this shortened survey did not include the security screening questions.

We are working with the Civil Aviation Authority to restore security screening questions to the survey from the start of 2023. We therefore expect to be able to provide updated statistics from 2024 onwards.

For further updates to release schedules, please see Changes to DfT statistics publications due to coronavirus (COVID-19).

Aviation statistics provides information on activity at UK airports, passengers, volume of freight handled, punctuality, UK airlines, major international airports and airlines, 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 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 national statistics, are robust and have been produced to a suitable standard.

Published 31 July 2013
Last updated 15 December 2022 + show all updates
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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

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

  5. New release published.

  6. New release published.

  7. New release published.

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

  9. First published.