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AirTran wins battle for Chicago-Cancun route

News | 06 Apr 2012 13:33 | Stephen Trimble

Southwest Airlines-owned AirTran Airways appears to have beat Frontier Airlines for rights to launch a new route between Chicago and Cancun, Mexico. Southwest...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/AirTran-wins-battle-for-Chicago-Cancun-route-370492/

Cancun to have second runway

News | 17 Jan 2005 09:47 | Rainer Uphoff

<body lang=EN-GB style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> Mexico’s Cancun International Airport is to receive an investment of around Ps1 billion ($90 million) over the next four years. Around $35 million will go to the construction of a new runway while the rest will be used to enlarge and modernise the terminal building, create new aircraft parking area and improve the access ways. An airport spokesman says that this decision has been taken after plans to construct a second airport for the region were discarded last year by the regional authorities. Cancun is among the nine Mexican airports operated by the ASUR consortium in whichhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Cancun-to-have-second-runway-283576/

Cancun clarification

News | 01 Dec 2004 00:00

In your publication The Airline Industry Guide 2004/5 there is an omission regarding airports and their size. The Top 10 airports 2003 passenger ranking for Latin America does not show Cancun International airport. Last year Cancun reported to ACI a total of 9,150,000 passengers, making it the second largest airport in Mexico. Salvador Suarez, strategic planning manager ASUR, Mexico EDITOR'SNOTE: In fact both Cancun and Guadalajara were omitted due to an apparent error in the regional coding. The table below shows how the ranking should have looked. <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook:480;mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext;mso-borhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Cancun-clarification-190433/

Danes increase share in Mexican airport consortium

News | 14 Apr 2004 08:19 | David Kaminski-Morrow

<body lang=EN-GB style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> Copenhagen airports operator Kobenhavns Lufthavne has increased its shareholding in the Inversiones y Tecnicas Aeroportuarias (ITA) consortium which, in turn, is a stakeholder in Mexican airport operator Aeropuertos del Sureste (ASUR). Kobenhavns Lufthavne has increased its ITA shareholding to 36.5% after acquiring an 11% stake from Spanish firm Ferrovial Aeropuertos for around $12.7 million. ITA holds 15% of ASUR which operates nine airports in southeast Mexico, including Cancun International. Ferrovial Aeropuertos has sold its remaining 13.5% stake in ITA to Mexican businessmhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Danes-increase-share-in-Mexican-airport-consortium-280612/

Mexican airports operator ASUR sees operating profit fall

News | 20 Feb 2002 11:48 | David Morrow

<body lang=EN-GB style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> Privatised Mexican airports group Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR) saw its operating profit for the full year 2001 fall 6.6% to Ps377 million ($41 million) on the back of a 3.8% drop in revenues, mostly in the aeronautical sector.<o:p></o:p> <u1:p></u1:p>ASUR operates Cancun International and eight other airports in southeastern Mexico and was the first Mexican airport group to be privatised.<o:p></o:p> <u1:p></u1:p>Aeronautical revenue, which represents 85% of income at the group, fell 4.2% in the year to 31 December 2001. ASUR says that this was “mainly as a result of the decline in operations and traffic level” following the events of September 2001.<o:p></ohttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Mexican-airports-operator-ASUR-sees-operating-profit-fall-256679/