GAP, the airport operator, is expanding its 12 terminals, including Vallarta, Guadalajara, Los Cabos and Tijuana

Mexican airdrome relation Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP) expects 40% maturation by 2030 arsenic it continues a large 52 billion-peso (US $3 billion) enlargement and betterment program.

Through its 2025-2030 Master Development Plan (PMD), GAP volition beryllium expanding its 12 airdrome terminals, increasing its wide infrastructure by 58%. By the extremity of 2029, its 4 largest airports — Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Tijuana and Los Cabos — volition person expanded by 134%, 91%, 47% and 37% successful quadrate meters, respectively. 

Guadalajara International Airport has already been undergoing large reconstruction successful mentation for the upcoming World Cup, but those improvements are conscionable the opening of GAP’s semipermanent plans for the airport. (Cuartoscuro)

GAP plans to allocate 13 cardinal ($752 million) of the 52 cardinal pesos successful 2026.

The steadfast volition put a projected 26 cardinal pesos ($1.5 billion) successful Mexico’s occidental Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta airports, 11.4 cardinal pesos ($659 million) successful the U.S. gateway airports of Tijuana and Mexicali, and 8 cardinal pesos ($463 million) successful the Los Cabos and La Paz airports successful Baja California Sur, GAP’s CEO, Raúl Revuelta, announced successful a Tuesday property conference. 

“We privation modern infrastructure that develops connectivity, improves the rider acquisition and incorporates caller technologies specified arsenic facial designation and licence sheet speechmaking for ticketless parking,” said Revuelta. 

GAP volition equip Tijuana airdrome with a Category 2 Instrument Landing System successful June, allowing craft to onshore safely successful low-visibility conditions. Felipe Ángeles International Airport and Toluca International Airport are presently the lone Mexican airports with this technology. 

Revuelta expects the investments to turn GAP’s rider numbers to up to 85 cardinal a twelvemonth by 2030, crossed its airports successful Mexico and Jamaica, compared to 66 cardinal successful 2025. The leap volition beryllium mostly driven by accrued rider postulation astatine Guadalajara airport, peculiarly during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, arsenic good arsenic the tourism roar successful formation destinations.

“We are seeing that the tourism assemblage is driven by edifice country construction, and that is happening [in] Los Cabos, La Paz and Puerto Vallarta,” Revuelta told the paper El Financiero.

While question request from the United States has waned owed to the Trump administration’s strict migration policies, Canadian tourism to Mexico has grown implicit the past year, arsenic Canadians look to alternate North American sun-and-sea destinations. 

“It was an accidental for the Canadian marketplace to instrumentality announcement of america much aggressively,” said Revuelta.

That announcement was demonstrated precocious astatine the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) successful Madrid, Spain, wherever Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Avila Olmeda secured the upcoming motorboat of a caller Tijuana-Vancouver aerial route.

With reports from El Financiero, Reforma, T21 and La Jornada