List of busiest airports in the United Kingdom facts for kids

This list of the 20 busiest airports is ranked in order of passenger traffic.

Rank 2019	Airport	City or County	Passengers 2019	Passengers 2018	Change 2019 / 18
1.	London Heathrow	London	80,890,031	80,123,537	01.0%
2.	London Gatwick	West Sussex	46,576,473	46,086,089	01.1%
3.	Manchester Airport	Manchester	29,397,357	28,292,797	03.9%
4.	London Stansted	Essex	28,124,292	27,996,116	00.5%
5.	London Luton	Luton	18,216,207	16,769,634	08.6%
6.	Edinburgh Airport	Edinburgh	14,737,497	14,294,305	03.1%
7.	Birmingham Airport	Birmingham	12,650,607	12,457,051	01.6%
8.	Bristol Airport	Bristol	8,964,242	8,699,529	03.0%
9.	Glasgow Airport	Glasgow	8,847,100	9,656,227	08.4%
10.	Belfast Airport	Belfast	6,278,563	6,268,960	00.2%
11.	Newcastle Airport	Newcastle upon Tyne	5,203,624	5,334,095	02.4%
12.	London City Airport	London	5,122,271	4,820,403	06.3%
13.	Liverpool Airport	Liverpool	5,045,991	5,046,995	00.0%
14.	East Midlands Airport	Leicestershire	4,675,411	4,873,831	04.1%
15.	Leeds Bradford Airport	Yorkshire	3,992,862	4,038,889	01.1%
16.	Aberdeen Airport	Aberdeen	2,912,883	3,056,018	04.7%
17.	Belfast City	Belfast	2,455,259	2,511,261	02.2%
18.	London Southend	Essex	2,035,535	1,480,139	037.5%
19.	Southampton	Southampton	1,781,457	1,991,014	010.5%
20.	Cardiff	Cardiff	1,407,862	1,581,131	011.0%

Images for kids

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  Queue of aircraft for take-off at Heathrow Airport, which handled 80 million passengers in 2018

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  Gatwick Airport, the third busiest airport after Heathrow and Stansted

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  Manchester Airport, the fourth busiest airport in the UK and busiest of the non-London airports