London Heathrow, London Stansted and Manchester airports have recorded their busiest days ever in the past few weeks.
Heathrow recorded its busiest day on 1 August with 270,869 passengers travelling through the airport.
July marked its busiest month on record, with 7.891 million passengers, narrowly surpassing July 2024’s total of 7.890m.
From January to July 2025, the airport saw 47.89m passengers, which is a 0.2% growth compared to the same period in 2024.
Heathrow has confirmed it has now submitted its plan to the Government for the third runway, which it hopes could be operational within a decade.
The airport said: “Heathrow is ready to mobilise, and the Government will now decide the next steps, with an update expected in the Autumn.”
Stansted Airport had its busiest day ever on 27 July with 102,000 people passing through the airport.
It was also its busiest July on record with 2.92m passengers, this is just short of its record month of 3m in August 2024.
The number of passengers using the airport in the past 12 months sits at 29.97m, an increase of 2.9% on the previous year.
Spain, Italy and Turkey were the most popular countries visited during July. Mallorca, Dublin and Edinburgh were the busiest individual destinations.
Manchester Airport surpassed 60,000 passengers for the first time on 25 July, and just under 3.3m passengers used the airport last month, making it its busiest July on record and its second busiest month ever.
