Related publications
Transport Scotland produce a compendium publication titled ‘Scottish Transport Statistics’ which includes a chapter on Air Transport.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also publish Daily UK flight numbers and rolling seven-day average, including flights to, from, and within the UK.
Data source
The information on air transport through Cardiff airport in this bulletin and associated StatsWales tables reproduces the statistics compiled by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and includes the CAA’s own notes around the figures. The CAA data are outside the scope of National Statistics.
Definitions
Air transport movements: Landings or take offs of aircraft engaged in the transport of passengers or cargo on commercial terms. All scheduled service movements, whether loaded, empty, or positioning, and charter movements transporting passengers or cargo and air taxi movements are included. For the purpose of these statistics, where flights are operated on a sub-charter basis, the operator is identified according to the flight number and an internal flight is counted as a single air transport movement.
Domestic service
Services flown entirely within the United Kingdom, Isle of Man or Channel Islands.
International service
Services flown between the United Kingdom, including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands and places outside.
Charter services
All air transport movements other than scheduled services.
Scheduled services
Those performed according to the published timetable including supplementary timetables, available for use by the members of the public.
Passengers
All revenue and non-revenue passengers on air transport movement flights.
Terminal passenger
A passenger joining or leaving an aircraft at the reporting airport. A passenger travelling between two reporting airports is counted twice, once at each airport. A passenger who changes from one aircraft to the other, carrying the same flight number is treated as a terminal passenger.
Transit passenger
A passenger who arrives and departs from a reporting airport on the same aircraft. Each transit passenger is counted only once.
Freight
The weight of property carried on an aircraft including for example the weight of vehicles, excess baggage and diplomatic bags, but excluding mail and passengers’ and crews’ permitted baggage. Freight in transit through the airport on the same aircraft is excluded.
CAA departing passenger survey – topics covered in survey questions
The CAA departing passenger survey asks questions relating to the person, the airport and the airline and the journey. The latest survey to include all of the major airports used by travellers to and from Wales was conducted in 2019 and results can be found on page 9 of our Air Transport 2019 statistical bulletin. More detailed information relating to the 2019 passenger survey report can be found on the CAA website.
