César Arellano García
La Jornada newspaper
Monday, February 17, 2025, p. 11
The three main airport groups in the country, of the Pacific (GAP), Southeast (ASUR) and Central Norte (OMA), reported that during January they had an increase in the mobilization of passengers inside the country between 2 and 7 percent compared to the The same period of the previous year, while in that same period, the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) registered a 2.1 percent decrease in the mobilization of commercial passengers due to the reduction of operations that entered into force since 2023.
In its monthly report, GAP indicated that the 12 Mexican airports that administer registered an increase in total passenger traffic of 6.3 percent, compared to the same month of 2024. The airports of Guadalajara, Tijuana, Puerto Vallarta and Los Cabos presented increases increased increases of 9.9, 5.2, 1.9 and 0.6 percentage points, respectively, compared to January last year. For its part, Montego Bay, in Jamaica, had a decrease of 7.3 percent compared to the same period a year ago.
Morelia will have 8 routes
The weekend, GAP announced that Morelia’s International Airport will have eight routes to different destinations in Mexico and the United States, which will be operated by Volaris from July. These are five new routes to the neighboring country: Ontario and Sacramento, in California; Houston, San Antonio and Dallas, in Texas, and three other nationals to Mexicali, Baja California; Ixtapa, Guerrero, and Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. With the opening of these new connections, the Morelia airport already has 20 routes in total, seven national and 13 international.
For its part, OMA reported that the number of travelers transported in their 13 airports during January 2025 grew 9.9 percent compared to what was recorded in the same period of 2024. National passenger traffic increased 7.3 and that of internationals grew 24 percent. From the total volume of the month, 99.4 percent came from commercial aviation and 0.6 of general aviation.
Acapulco airport had a significant 51.6 percent increase in the number of total passengers, after the hurricane Otis He devastated that Guerrerense city in October 2023. In January last year he registered 39,951 travelers, while in the same period of this year he counted 62 thousand 364 users.
Meanwhile, Asur, which operates nine airports in the southeast, announced that passenger traffic in the country had a decrease in international and domestic traffic of 6.5 percent and 0.7, respectively.
