Mexico’s Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste has reported total passenger traffic up 10.6% in June 2017, with growth of 12.7% across its nine Mexican airports and 4.8% at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan where ASUR is a JV partner in operator, Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC.

 

ASUR says these results reflect comparisons between June 1 to June 30, 2017 and the same period in 2016, while its accumulated figures (HY1) reflect comparisons between January 1 and June 30, 2017 and 2016 (Excluding transit and general aviation passengers using Mexican airports-Ed].

 

MEXICAN AIRPORT PASSENGERS UP 11.5%

In the HY1 period, passenger traffic at Mexican airports rose by 11.5% to 15.7m compared with 14.1m in the previous comparative period, while international passenger traffic grew by 8.9% to 9m.

 

Over the same period, international passenger traffic at San Juan International Airport in Puerto Rico grew by 7.1% to 573,608.

 

Total traffic for the same six-month period (international and domestic), including all airports in Mexico and San Juan in Puerto Rico reached 20/4m – an increase of 9%.

 

Airports currently managed by ASUR include (Mexico) Cancún; Cozumel; Huatulco; Mérida; Minatitlan; Oaxaca; Tapachula; Veracruz; and Villahermosa – plus (San Juan) Puerto Rico.

 

STATISTICAL NOTE: The following statistics are the latest available at press-time relating to ASUR’s total traffic in the month of June and its Mexican airport traffic.

 

The Mexican airport statistics are broken down to include the month of June and the first six months of calendar year 2017.