New International Tulum Airport 2023
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The New International Tulum Airport will offer a 3,700-meter runway for 4,800 construction workers to complete the project.
2nd largest passenger flow in the region
According to a Defense Ministry (Sedena) engineer, Gustavo Vallego Suárez, who is overseeing airport construction for the ministry, there will be 13 positions for commercial aircraft, along with precision navigation and landing systems.
Once open, the new airport is projected to have the capacity to serve 5.5 million passengers and 32,000 flights per year. According to Sedena, around 75% of flights arriving in the airport will be international.
The Tulum airport will be connected to the Maya Train, another one of President López Obrador’s key infrastructure projects, via an onsite station.
Both the airport and the train will be run by the Defense Ministry, as part of its airline and tourism firm Olmeca-Maya-Mexica Airport, Railroad and Auxiliary Services Group – which also operates Felipe Ángeles International Airport near Mexico City.
The new airport will also have a military base.
Ubication of the new Tulum airport
It will be ubicated less than 40 km from Tulum downtown on an ejidal field of the Felipe Carillo Puerto municipality.
“In December of this year, we are going to inaugurate the Tulum airport, which is essential because the Cancún airport is saturated, with more than 700 daily flights,” the president stated on May 4. However, the Defense Ministry has said that operations will begin in 2024
Tulum has grown substantially in recent decades. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), the municipal area has grown from 7,000 inhabitants to over 47,000 in the last 20 years.
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