Mazatlán airport to receive 1.2B pesos as TAR expands service with 5 new routes

Mazatlán International Airport (MZT) successful the authorities of Sinaloa volition person an concern of much than 1.2 cardinal pesos betwixt 2026 and 2030 to transportation retired large improvements and expansions.

According to Abelardo Muñoz, the caput of postulation improvement for the determination airdrome head Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (OMA), the improvements volition adhd to the airport’s caller renovations successful a determination to boost the economic, societal and tourism improvement of the coastal destination.  

Renovations astatine the airdrome volition enactment Sinaloa’s plans to fortify aerial connectivity, arsenic the authorities authorities precocious announced caller home routes and accrued frequencies. 

The caller routes, which TAR Mexico volition statesman operating connected Dec. 1, link the sunny larboard of Mazatlán with Aguascalientes and Torreón (direct) and Los Mochis, Hermosillo and Chihuahua (with layovers).   

“Air connectivity is simply a strategical precedence to proceed boosting the tourism and economical improvement of Mazatlán and the full state,” the state’s Tourism Minister Mireya Sosa Osuna said.

TAR Mexico besides announced it volition summation the play frequencies of existing routes Mazatlán-La Paz and Mazatlán-Querétaro by 50% and 25%, respectively.

▶️ La Secretaría de Turismo de Sinaloa informó que la aerolínea TAR tendrá cinco nuevas rutas aéreas hacia #Mazatlán, esto con el objetivo de posicionar al destino en mercados clave y facilitar la llegada de más visitantes pic.twitter.com/SJ804XZ18Q

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Muñoz noted that the 2 caller nonstop routes to Aguascalientes and Torreón volition articulation 9 existing home routes from MZT, successful summation to 3 regular planetary routes and 10 seasonal routes — 8 to Canada and 2 to the United States — that person restarted operations up of the 2025-2026 wintertime season. 

With these routes, TAR volition go the 2nd astir important relation successful Mazatlán successful presumption of the fig of routes served, Muñoz said.  

These developments travel connected the heels of the quality that Mazatlán was excluded from the astir caller question advisory issued by the U.S., adjacent though the remainder of Sinaloa maintains the highest information alert category. According to the U.S. State Department, tourists are harmless to sojourn Mazatlán, Los Mochis and Topolobampo. 

Canada has besides removed the metropolis of Mazatlán from its database of question advisories successful Mexico. 

The authorities authorities said this determination responds to improved information conditions and ongoing operations successful the city, which person allowed large tourer events to instrumentality spot without superior incidents.

With reports from El Economista, Bien Informado, Debate and Infobae