Airports in United Kingdom
53 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.
United Kingdom has 53 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 17 of them large. The busiest are London Heathrow Airport (LHR, 83.9 million passengers, Wikidata, 2024), London Gatwick Airport (LGW, 40.9 million passengers, Wikidata, 2023) and Manchester Airport (MAN, 23.4 million passengers, Wikidata, 2022). Belfast, Glasgow and London have more than one airport; a city code (LON for London) stands for all of a city's airports on tickets and in flight searches.
Cities with more than one airport
Busiest routes
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| JFK – LHR | 5,555 km | 2,984,474 |
| DUB – LHR | 450 km | 1,903,141 |
| LHR – MAD | 1,243 km | 1,550,044 |
| AMS – LHR | 371 km | 1,460,366 |
| FRA – LHR | 656 km | 1,410,787 |
| LAX – LHR | 8,781 km | 1,410,748 |
| BCN – LGW | 1,109 km | 1,353,516 |
| LHR – MUC | 944 km | 1,304,262 |
| IST – LHR | 2,493 km | 1,281,925 |
| AGP – LGW | 1,644 km | 1,198,732 |
| LHR – ZRH | 790 km | 1,147,298 |
| CDG – LHR | 348 km | 1,121,802 |
| AMS – MAN | 488 km | 1,083,040 |
| DUB – MAN | 265 km | 1,063,307 |
| DUB – LGW | 486 km | 1,052,966 |
| MAN – TFS | 3,046 km | 975,825 |
| DUB – STN | 472 km | 956,463 |
| FCO – LGW | 1,407 km | 923,766 |
| ALC – MAN | 1,680 km | 902,041 |
| SAW – STN | 2,524 km | 877,269 |
Questions
United Kingdom has 53 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 17 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.
London Heathrow Airport (LHR), London Gatwick Airport (LGW), Manchester Airport (MAN), London Stansted Airport (STN), London Luton Airport (LTN) and Edinburgh Airport (EDI), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.
London Heathrow Airport (LHR), with 83.9 million passengers (Wikidata, 2024).
Belfast (BFS, BHD), Glasgow (GLA, PIK) and London (LON: LHR, LGW, STN, LTN, LCY, SEN).