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Newquay Cornwall International Airport (IATA: NQY, ICAO: EGDG) is a commercial airport located a few kilometres northeast of Newquay in England, UK. It is based on RAF St. Mawgan, utilising the RAF's runway, and MOD-provided fire service. It is the main airport serving Cornwall, a very popular tourist area of England. The airport is located close to attractions such as The Eden Project, National Maritime Museum Cornwall and Tate St Ives.

As the airport is situated close to many surfing beaches (Newquay has been called the 'surf capital' of Europe), many of the championship contenders fly through, as it is one of the only commercial links into Cornwall.

Airport use is growing, including a new extension that has increased the terminal size by 20%. This means the airport can handle as many as 450,000 passengers a year. However, the airport is continuing to grow, due to popularity and increased sales, the airport is known to be one of the fastest growing regional airports in the UK. The runway is able to take the very largest and fastest of civil and military craft, having and been built and maintained for decades as a USAAF strategic nuclear bomber base,^{[citation needed]} until the end of the cold war and changes in American political priorities markedly shifted. British government policies and resources alone could no longer sustain the RAF involvement but Cornwall has been left with a spectacular facility.

In 2006 the airport introduced a £5 per passenger airport development fee, payable by all departing passengers via an ATM type machine prior to passing security. This resulted in Monarch dropping its only route from the airport (Málaga) and Ryanair reducing the amount of flights from 2 to 1 per day.

However, the flying operations at the RAF Base on the opposite side of the runway (RAF St. Mawgan) will cease in the spring of 2008. The Fire and Rescue Service at St Mawgan is run by the MOD but it is not RAF. The firefighters at the base stand to lose their jobs along with many other locally employed staff. As the airfield is manned for cat3a all the new flights coming in to the airport that are above cat3a (737 and other large aircraft) will have to be covered by firefighters working overtime as they have been doing for the Ryanair aircraft thus far. The civil airport is having to take over the running of the airfield that is presently being run by the RAF.

Winter 2007 expansion announcements

Winter 2007 has seen a variety of new route announcements from Cornwall Newquay airport, some from existing carriers and one from a new one with the first flight from German carrier Lufthansa who will operate from June 2008 to Dusseldorf.

Local Southwest based Air Southwest announced major expansion for 2008 with new routes from Newquay to Chambery in France, Newcastle and Glasgow along with the resumption of its Cork services.

Exeter based Flybe have confirmed new routes to Birmingham, Southampton, Glasgow, Isle of Man and Reus. Local airline Skybus have taken up a route previously operated by Air Southwest to fly from Newquay Cornwall Airport to Cardiff and a totally new route to St. Brieuc in France.

A surprise announcement was also made by Ryanair on the 18th December 2007 regarding there operation at Newquay. Stansted will return to twice daily in 2008 and new routes will be added from Newquay to Gerona and Alicante.

• Air Southwest (Bristol, Cork, Chambéry [begins 20 December, 2008/ends 28 March, 2009], Dublin, Leeds-Bradford, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle [begins April], Glasgow [begins April], Plymouth)
• British Airways (London-Gatwick)
• Flybe (Belfast-City, Birmingham [begins 1 April], Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow [begins 1 April], Southampton [begins 30 March])
• Isles of Scilly Skybus (St. Mary's, Cardiff [begins 10 March 08], St. Brieuc [begins 17 March 08], )
• Lufthansa (Dusseldorf) [begins June 2008]
• Ryanair (London-Stansted, Girona [Begins 1 April], Alicante [Begins 4 March])

• Newquay Cornwall International Airport Homepage
• Airport information for EGDG at World Aero Data
• Newquay Airport & Local Services Online Guide
• Public Transport Services for Newquay Airport