Guanajuato’s airport is getting a massive 2.88 billion-peso, 4-year facelift

The Guanajuato International Airport is getting a monolithic facelift, with a full of 2.88 cardinal pesos (US $166.8 million) earmarked for improvements done the adjacent 4 years.

Guanajuato Governor Libia Dennise García made the announcement connected Wednesday, saying in a societal media station that the “most important modernization signifier of the past 2 decades … volition fortify the airport’s operational capacity, amended rider acquisition and consolidate Guanajuato’s connectivity with Mexico and the world.”

The caller concern ensures that the ongoing enlargement task — which saw 740 cardinal pesos (US $42.9 million) spent successful 2025 — volition modernize strategical infrastructure and enactment the airport’s sustained growth.

The announcement was made aft consultations with the Airport Terminal Advisory Commission and meetings with Jessica Paola Olivo Moreno, the head of the Pacific Airport Group (GAP), which manages the airport.

The funds volition beryllium disbursed implicit the adjacent 4 years: 222 cardinal pesos (US $12.86 million) successful 2026; 705 cardinal pesos ($40.8 million) successful 2027; 671 cardinal pesos ($38.9 million) successful 2028; and 523 cardinal pesos ($30.3 million) successful 2029.

Key improvements volition see the enlargement of the terminal gathering by much than 23 percent, allowing for much streamlined security, migration and boarding procedures, arsenic good arsenic enhanced lawsuit service. 

The baggage assertion country volition go 49% larger and 2 caller lines volition beryllium added astatine the Inspection Point. Also portion of the enlargement program are 3 caller boarding gates, bringing the full to nine, arsenic good arsenic 2 caller baggage carousels.

Additionally, 5 autonomous migration checkpoints volition beryllium established truthful arsenic to expedite rider travel and the Last Waiting Room country volition beryllium expanded by 150%.

The airfield volition besides get a makeover, with the craft apron expanded by 58% and 3 caller airplane gates added, bringing the full to 15. 

The airdrome — besides known arsenic El Bajío International Airport and located successful the municipality of Silao — handles implicit 3 cardinal passengers annually and maintains connections with much than 21 nationalist and planetary destinations.

With reports from Quadratín Bajío and Milenio