The latest figures from the CAA covered the period when international leisure travel started to reopen on 17 May with the launch of the government’s much-criticised traffic light system.
Second-quarter passenger numbers were nearly three million higher than during the first quarter of 2021 when international leisure travel was banned and there were just 3.4 million airline passengers.
There were 124,000 total passenger flights in the second quarter – up from just 81,000 flights in the first quarter of the year.
