San Miguel, Ensenada and more: These are the five new airports Mexico is planning to build

The Mexican airdrome services bureau and authorities authorities are readying the operation of 5 caller airports successful the coming years. These projects question to boost economic, tourism, and logistical improvement successful antithetic regions of the state and respond to the increasing request for aerial connectivity.

Carlos Manuel Merino Campos, manager of the authorities bureau Airports and Auxiliary Services (ASA), said determination are astatine slightest 7 requests for operation oregon enlargement of airports successful antithetic areas of Mexico.

In Baja California, the authorities and municipal governments are pushing for an airdrome successful Ensenada, Merino said. (Yitzhak Rodriguez/Unsplash)

Specifically, the caller aerial terminals would beryllium located successful Baja California, Guanajuato, Jalisco and Quintana Roo.

“Our extremity is to make determination improvement hubs and amended the system successful each way,” Merino said.

Merino explained that the Guanajuato authorities has officially submitted a petition to physique an airdrome successful San Miguel de Allende — precocious named the Best City successful the World by Travel and Leisure mag — aimed astatine enhancing its tourism potential.

Additionally, Jalisco would person 2 caller airports. One would beryllium located connected the Costalegre coast, an country known for its beardown tourer appeal, portion the different would beryllium successful Lagos de Moreno, focusing connected logistics and concern operations owed to its proximity to cardinal commercialized corridors.

The Costalegre airport, known arsenic the Chalacatepec International Airport, is adjacent completion and expected to statesman operations by the extremity of the year.

In Quintana Roo, plans are underway for a 5th planetary airport, with 2 imaginable locations presently being evaluated: the mainland of Isla Mujeres oregon a yet-to-be-determined country successful the bluish portion of the state.

Merino besides revealed that some the authorities and municipal governments, arsenic good arsenic concern leaders, person expressed their volition to physique an airdrome adjacent the metropolis of Ensenada successful Baja California.

He noted that overall, processing these projects takes a sizeable magnitude of time, arsenic gathering an airdrome involves years of planning, feasibility studies, biology interaction assessments, and making concern decisions. However, helium said that for immoderate of these projects, readying and preliminary studies are underway, with meteorological stations already installed to measure whether projected tracts of onshore are suitable for an airport.

“We request ample areas. We are discussing onshore sizes ranging from 500 to 1,000 hectares to guarantee capable capableness for the airdrome expansion,” helium said.

One of the airports planned for Jalisco would service Costalegre, a processing tourism destination. (File photo)

Meanwhile, the Navy Ministry (SEMAR)  is seeking to instrumentality implicit operations astatine respective much Mexican airports via the Navy Airport Group. The Navy presently manages Mexico City International Airport (AICM) and respective determination airports, but seeks to grow its portfolio. It has initiated the process of assuming the absorption and cognition of six further commercialized airports successful the country. These see the aerial terminals of Lázaro Cárdenas, Tuxpan, Islas Marías, San Felipe, Guaymas and Puerto Libertad airports.

According to the SEMAR, managing these leisure and concern aerial terminals would boost the economy. However, it said that archetypal the caller terminals request infrastructure improvements successful bid to person commercialized flights connected a regular basis.

With reports from Aviación 21, Forbes México and Bi Noticias