Ahead of January’s peak season, 11 members of the airport’s workforce have been meeting with agents from across the North East.

While there, they have underlined the airport’s routes for next year, including its new destination of Antalya in Turkey, and dropped off goody bags with further details of the airport’s summer schedule.

The visits come off the back of Teesside’s biggest summer in almost a decade this year, which has seen passenger numbers on holiday flights more than 90% loaded.

Figures showed it was also one of the only airports in the North to have passenger numbers higher than pre-pandemic levels, serving 23,358 in August 2022 versus 12,284 in August 2019.

Tees Valley mayor, Ben Houchen, said: "Local people know about, and love, their airport – this was clear to see in this summer’s hugely successful holiday season.

"Now we need to get the message out far and wide, to those who maybe don’t know about our huge terminal transformation which has made it smoother, quicker and more convenient than ever to fly from Teesside."