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(Megan has asked her colleague Brendan, who covers Latin America for Flight, to write this blog on the Mexican airport scene.)Mexico's ailing air transport market is starting to catch up with airports as several expansion projects south of the border are put on hold.
Los Cabos, a popular destination in Baja California for holidaying Americans, has decided to delay for at least one year the opening of a new terminal which would have doubled the airport's capacity. Los Cabos airport, which is operated by Mexican airport group GAP and handled three million passengers last year, was slated to open a fourth terminal this quarter. It is now slated to open in the first quarter of 2010.
Over in Monterrey, airport group OMA has delayed the opening of a third terminal which would have expanded capacity from seven to nine million passengers annually. The new terminal, which was slated to open this quarter, is now slated to open in the second half of this year.
Continue reading Mothballing new terminals in Mexico.
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