Information for Cardiff Wales Airport including aircraft movements, passengers and freight handled and international air passenger traffic for 2017.
This is not the latest release in the series: Air transport
Series information:
Main points
- The total number of terminal passengers (arrivals and departures) using Cardiff International Airport increased by 8.7% between 2016 and 2017, to 1.47 million.
- During 2017 there were 82 international routes that operated out of Cardiff International Airport, 5 more than in 2016.
- There were around 29,000 aircraft movements at Cardiff International Airport in 2017, a 10.2% increase on the 2016 figures.
- Freight volume at Cardiff International Airport was 3.95 tonnes in 2017, the lowest on record.
Reports

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Data
Datasets and interactive tools
StatsWales website
Civil Aviation Authority website
Contact
Statistician: Ryan Pike
Telephone: 0300 025 6415
Email: stats.transport@gov.wales
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Media
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