THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Mexico

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

MEXICO DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Mexico City Internacional Benito Juarez (MEX)

2,521

270,217

35.4 %

3.9 %

2

Monterrey Gen Mariano Escobedo (MTY)

604

71,940

9.4 %

14.0 %

3

Guadalajara Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International (GDL)

554

61,968

8.1 %

(-3.8) %

4

Cancún International (CUN)

443

59,942

7.9 %

40.9 %

5

Tijuana General A L Rodriguez International (TIJ)

337

47,201

6.2 %

5.7 %

6

Culiacan Federal De Bachigualato (CUL)

147

16,437

2.2 %

1.4 %

7

Hermosillo Gen Pesqueira Garcia (HMO)

165

15,516

2.0 %

(-13.4) %

8

Merida Rejon (MID)

127

15,031

2.0 %

(-10.7) %

9

Villahermosa Capitan Carlos Rovirosa (VSA)

122

12,850

1.7 %

(-8.9) %

10

Puerto Vallarta Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International (PVR)

110

12,023

1.6 %

23.4 %

(Others)

2,042

179,176

23.5 %

(-1.3) %

TOTAL

7,172

762,301

-

4.3 %

HOME AIRPORT: MEXICO INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Mexico City Internacional Benito Juarez (MEX)

882

131,847

40.8 %

10.6 %

2

Cancún International (CUN)

499

87,225

27.0 %

4.2 %

3

Guadalajara Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International (GDL)

245

29,844

9.2 %

(-6.3) %

4

San Jose Del Cabo Los Cabos (SJD)

144

19,937

6.2 %

3.6 %

5

Monterrey Gen Mariano Escobedo (MTY)

139

13,219

4.1 %

9.8 %

6

Puerto Vallarta Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International (PVR)

84

11,131

3.4 %

16.6 %

7

León Del Bajío International (BJX)

64

4,583

1.4 %

1.3 %

8

Cozumel (CZM)

18

2,635

0.8 %

(-8.4) %

9

Morelia Francisco J. Múgica Internacional (MLM)

29

2,321

0.7 %

19.7 %

10

Toluca Licenciado Adolfo Lopez Mateos International (TLC)

19

2,138

0.7 %

234.1 %

(Others)

305

18,632

5.8 %

14.1 %

TOTAL

2,428

323,512

-

7.2 %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: MEXICO INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Houston George Bush Intercontinental (IAH)

421

34,487

10.7 %

(-2.6) %

2

Los Angeles International (LAX)

226

30,502

9.4 %

(-2.0) %

3

Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW)

277

28,002

8.7 %

9.1 %

4

Miami International (MIA)

113

16,654

5.1 %

4.5 %

5

Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX)

123

14,614

4.5 %

9.1 %

6

Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International (ATL)

105

14,478

4.5 %

(-3.2) %

7

Madrid Barajas (MAD)

40

12,883

4.0 %

12.0 %

8

New York John F Kennedy International (JFK)

77

11,599

3.6 %

33.3 %

9

San Francisco International (SFO)

80

10,880

3.4 %

27.8 %

10

Panama City Tocumen International (PTY)

67

9,814

3.0 %

48.7 %

(Others)

899

139,599

43.2 %

7.3 %

TOTAL

2,428

323,512

-

7.2 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…