Cancún Airport Tops 400 Daily Flights for First Time Since August

Cancún, Quintana Roo — Cancún International Airport has scheduled 428 takeoffs and landings for Sunday, the first time it has broken the 400-operation mark since Aug. 15, according to airport operator ASUR.

The last time the airport crossed that threshold was Aug. 15, with 416 scheduled flights. Traffic then fell sharply, bottoming out at 284 movements on Sept. 23.

Sunday’s schedule involves 28 airlines connecting Cancún with 74 destinations across Mexico, the Americas and Europe — 54 international and 20 domestic.

Of the 214 scheduled arrivals, 77 are domestic flights and 137 are international. The same split applies to the 214 departures: 77 domestic and 137 international. In total, 274 of Sunday’s operations are international and 154 are domestic.

Airlines operating at the airport include Aeroméxico, Air Canada, Air Europa, Air Transat, American Airlines, Arajet, Avianca, British Airways, Condor, Copa, Delta, Eurowings, Flair Airlines, Frontier, JetBlue, LATAM Chile, LATAM Perú, Orbest, Porter Airlines, Southwest, Sun Country, Thomson, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Viva Aerobús, Volaris, WestJet and World2Fly.

International service covers Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Bogotá, Boston, Calgary, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Edmonton, Istanbul, Fort Lauderdale, Frankfurt, Guatemala City, Houston, Kansas City, Kelowna, Havana, Las Vegas, Lima, Lisbon, London and Los Angeles, among others.

Other international routes on the schedule include Madrid, Manchester, Medellín, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, Nashville, New York, Newark, Orlando, Ottawa, Panama City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Punta Cana, Quebec City, Regina, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San José, Santiago, St. Louis, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington and Winnipeg.

Domestic flights total 154 and link Cancún with Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Mexico City, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, León, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Reynosa, Saltillo, San Luis Potosí, Santa Lucía, Tijuana, Toluca, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz and Villahermosa.

Sunday’s rebound may be the first sign that the low season is beginning to ease, just weeks before the winter high season begins at the Mexican Caribbean’s busiest airport.