Manchester Airports Group (MAG) is celebrating a record-breaking summer season, as passenger numbers reached an all-time high.
7 million passengers travelled through a MAG airport across August
Manchester Airport and London Stansted both marked their busiest ever months on record
Operational performance remained strong offering passengers an enjoyable summer holiday experience
That meant that across the peak summer season – July to August – more than 13 million passengers chose a MAG airport to start their holidays or overseas trips.
Rolling 12-month traffic figures show the Group – which owns Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands Airports – has served 63.4 million passengers in the year to August 2024.
August was Manchester Airport’s busiest ever month on record, serving 3.4m passengers, which was up 8.8% on August 2023.
London Stansted also recorded its busiest-ever month with 3.1 million passengers flying through its terminal - an increase of 4.9% on August 2023. The month also saw the four busiest days in the airport’s history. The busiest day was 23 August with more than 103,000 passengers travelling through the airport, exceeding the previous busiest day on 24 August 2018.
East Midlands Airport served more than 540,000 passengers across August, which was up 2.8% on the same month in 2023. Over the summer season so far, more than two million passengers chose to fly from East Midlands Airport, benefitting from the recent improvements delivered as part of the five-year £120m investment into the airport.
Operational performance across the Group remained strong across the month of August, with 100% of passengers at East Midlands Airport passing through security in 15 minutes or less. At London Stansted the figure was at 99%, and at Manchester Airport it was 98%.
Ken O’Toole, MAG CEO, said: "More than 13m passengers travelled through MAG’s three airports over the peak summer holiday, which reflects the excellent choice of destinations we offer to people travelling for all reasons.
I am proud of the consistently strong operational performance we have delivered throughout the summer, meaning people were able to focus on relaxing and starting their holidays as soon as they set foot in our airports.
We have live investment programmes in place at all three of our airports, that will deliver improvements and enhance the passenger experience into the future.
I would like to thank colleagues across MAG for their ongoing hard work to deliver for our passengers.”
