• MÉRIDA: Air passenger traffic in the city of Mérida’s international airport at the heart of Mexico’s Yucatán Península grew 13.8% in 2019, keeping up with the recent expansion of recent year’s beyond the region’s largest airport in the Caribbean resort town of Cancún.
• GROWTH: According to the operator of both Mérida and Cancún airports (Grupo ASUR), passenger traffic in Merida reached 2.79 million in 2019, whereas, in Cancún, it reached 25.4 million. However, passenger traffic growth in Cancún was just a mere 1.1%.
• ROUTES: “Our airport (in Mérida) presents historic record figures regarding the movement of passengers and routes…These are new routes that connect us to markets that did not reach Yucatán before”, said Michelle Fridman, Yucatán’s state secretary of tourism.
• TIJUANA: Among the most popular of the recently opened routes, is the one connecting Mérida with Tijuana’s international airport in northwest Mexico. Due to its new cross-border bridge to San Diego, the new route has opened Mérida as a new destination for the Southern California market.
