Gatwick Airport saw an increased number of passengers pass through its gates this Christmas - despite severe disruption caused by weather and power failures.
A total of 2.38 million passengers passed through Gatwick in December 2013 - a rise of 4.8% on the December 2012 figure.
Flooding of the nearby River Mole led to power failures at Gatwick on December 24, with a number of flights cancelled and others delayed.
Gatwick chief executive Stewart Wingate has apologised to passengers and told the House of Commons Transport Committee last week that the airport "could and should have done more" for customers.
There was no mention of the Christmas Eve problems in today's traffic figures from Gatwick, which also showed that the airport handled 35.43 million passengers in the whole of 2013 - a 3.6% increase on the total for the whole of 2012.
The full-year 2013 increase was mainly due to a rise of 6.1% in European scheduled traffic. North Atlantic passenger numbers fell 10.7% but other long-haul route traffic rose 8.9%.
