Colima airport gets US $17.5M makeover to prepare it for international status

Work has begun connected a 327-million-peso (US $17.5 million) betterment of Colima state’s Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado National Airport, aimed astatine transforming the installation into an planetary question hub for Mexico’s North-Central Pacific Coast states.

The project, led by the Grupo Aeroportuario de la Marina nether the Naval Ministry (Semar), will greatly grow the airport’s capableness and is expected to boost determination connectivity, tourism and Colima’s economy. 

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Colima Governor Indira Vizcaíno Silva, who attended the motorboat ceremonial connected Monday on with General Director of Grupo Aeroportuario Marina Juan José Padilla Olmos, welcomed the commencement of the work. 

“This volition beryllium an airdrome arsenic beauteous and functional arsenic those different railway oregon airdrome terminals developed by the equipped forces,” Vizcaíno said. “And it volition stay successful optimal information for galore years to come, acknowledgment to the enactment carried retired by Semar personnel.” 

Padilla said, “With these works, we not lone fortify the existing infrastructure and amended the acquisition of each traveler who passes done this terminal, but we besides make jobs, pull much visitors and unfastened up caller opportunities for commercialized and investment.”

The task volition grow the airdrome terminal by 243%, including a fivefold summation of its airdrome arrivals capableness and a sevenfold capableness enlargement of its waiting area. It besides includes runway and taxiway renovation.  

The translation is portion of the Mexican government’s strategy of promoting determination improvement by enhancing aerial connectivity. 

On August 6, President Claudia Sheinbaum prepared a draught statement to designate Miguel de la Madrid arsenic an planetary airport, to beryllium managed by Semar. 

The statement volition travel into effect pursuing its work successful Mexico’s Official Gazette of the Federation. It volition past articulation the ranks of the country’s different planetary airports nether Semar control: Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Obregón, Guaymas, Loreto, Matamoros and Mexico City International Airport (AICM).

At present, the Colima airdrome serves lone 2 routes, 1 operated by Volaris to Tijuana and different by Aeroméxico to Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), extracurricular Mexico City. 

An estimated 117,483 travelers passed done the airdrome betwixt January and June of this year, astir 14% much than the aforesaid play of 2024, according to Mexico’s Federal Civil Aviation Agency.

Although Colima is 1 of Mexico’s lesser-known states successful presumption of tourism, its Pacific seashore location, untouched quality and historical sites marque it charismatic for visitors. 

The modernization of the terminal and its caller planetary presumption are expected to make caller routes, summation the fig of home and planetary visitors and presumption Colima arsenic a strategical hub for tourism, commercialized and concern successful Mexico’s West.  

 With reports from El Heraldo de México and El Economista