Jalisco’s airports will attract 50% of investment

GUADALAJARA - The international airports of Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta will capture 50% of the total investment that Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP) will make during the next five years, informed the President of the Board of Directors, Laura Diez Barroso.

While presenting the Master Development Plan (PMD) 2025-2029, she detailed that in the next five years GAP will make a historic investment of US$2.5 billion in expansions and remodeling of the 12 airports it operates in the country, which will allow the surface area of all its terminals to grow by more than 50%. However, he emphasized, the largest percentage of the capital will be for the Jalisco airports.

With such works, the capacity of the air terminal will grow more than 70% and will be able to handle up to 40 million passengers, a figure only comparable to Mexico City's International Airport, said GAP's CEO, Raúl Revuelta Musalem.

“The terminal can handle almost 22 million passengers; the new terminal, which is almost 75% of the current one, will be able to handle almost 20 million additional passengers; we are thinking that once we conclude the works in 2029, in terms of the airport's general capacity (…) it will have the capacity to receive 40 million passengers,” he said.

The Puerto Vallarta airport will receive an investment of more than US$175 million pesos, although added to the US$293 million pesos that are still being spent from the previous five-year period, this adds up to more than US$439,955 in works.