Cornwall Airport Newquay experienced its busiest ever December.

The airport handled 23,937 passengers during the last month of the year, an 18% increase on the previous December.

The year as a whole was very close to record-breaking numbers, with both July and August figures coming in as the second busiest ever.

Total numbers for the year have been recorded as 453,795, up 22% on 2016, a number which is likely to see the airport named ‘fastest growing UK airport’ for the second year running.

Managing director Al Titterington said: ‘What’s really positive in the 2017 stats is the huge spike in the winter passenger numbers.

‘Experiencing our busiest ever December shows that our hard work over recent years to break down the seasonality of the airport is starting to pay off.’