Passenger traffic to Puerto Vallarta on the rise as Cancún reports continued decline

Passenger postulation crossed Mexico’s airports reached 10.2 cardinal successful May, marking an yearly summation of 1.8%, the country’s 3 starring backstage airdrome groups reported past week. 

The 3 firms, Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (OMA), Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (Asur), and Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP), experienced a 3.5% monthly maturation successful home traffic. Meanwhile, planetary rider postulation fell 1.3%.   

OMA, which operates successful Mexico’s bluish region, reported the champion show to day this year, with an wide rider postulation summation of 6.9%. Domestic traffic, which contributes 86% of its total, roseate by 5.1%, portion planetary postulation accrued by 19.5%.  

The group’s hub successful Monterrey, which manages implicit fractional of its rider traffic, saw an summation of 16.1% successful home flights and 27% successful planetary flights. 

Overall, GAP saw a maturation of 2.6% successful rider postulation successful May, with a 4.7% summation successful home traffic. Domestic arrivals were up 1.1% astatine the Guadalajara airport, 1.5% successful Tijuana and 11.2% successful Puerto Vallarta. International arrivals to PV, however, were down 0.6% successful May.

ASUR, which manages 16 airports successful the Americas, had the weakest period. In Mexico, ASUR saw a 3% alteration successful rider postulation successful May, including a 0.4% autumn successful home postulation and a 5.6% driblet successful planetary traffic. Overall, postulation to ASUR’s hub successful Cancún fell by 4.2%.  

ASUR did not speculate connected the origin of the decrease, but manufacture analysts person cited planetary macroeconomic conditions and rising question costs for the simplification successful rider traffic. 

Puerto Vallarta is evolving to invited the adjacent procreation of travelers

GAP’s Puerto Vallarta Airport is undergoing a large enlargement expected to summation rider capableness by 130%. According to airdrome management, operation is 45% complete.

“We are fundamentally gathering a caller airport: we are lone keeping the existing runway, but the terminal, boarding areas and transportation systems volition beryllium caller and much efficient,” said the airport’s manager Cryshtian Amador Lizardi.  

During the archetypal 5 months of the year, the airdrome handled 3.4 cardinal passengers. Domestic postulation accrued by 14.4%, though planetary postulation decreased slightly, peculiarly from the United States, which has 26 connections astatine the airport.  

To assistance boost rider traffic, GAP is “working with airlines to reactivate routes, including imaginable transatlantic destinations, particularly with European countries,” according to Amador. 

With reports from Reportur, Expansión and El Economista