Tulum International Airport

Riviera Maya

Tulum International Airport (IATA Code: TUY – ICAO Code: MMTU), officially Felipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport, is located about 10 kilometers south of Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. It will be a terminal that will quickly become the access point for many tourists who wish to visit Tulum and the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve.

This airport will begin the works for its construction in the first days of June 2022 and will be developed on a property of 1,200 hectares of land.

It is contemplated that once completed, it will have 13 positions to park planes that allow enough operations so that it can receive 4 million passengers a year, just under a sixth of the more than 25 million that the Cancun airport received in 2019. , before the pandemic.

The development of this new air terminal in Quintana Roo will trigger the construction of a commercial and service corridor along 10.5 kilometers of federal highway 307 and will promote the construction of an airport city with urban reordering.

The airport is part of the development program for the southeast of Mexico and will have a capacity to receive 4 million tourists.

History of Tulum International Airport

In March 2011, the bidding for the construction contracts was to be concluded.

As of April 2014, all projects related to the Tulum Airport were no longer available through the official sites, and after the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president in 2018, emphasis was placed on the transpeninsular high speed train, the Mayan Train.

However, in recent years plans have been reset and the airport is scheduled to open in December 2023.

In March 2022, President López Obrador reported that for the construction work of the Tulum International Airport and sections 6 and 7 of the Mayan Train, 80 military engineers will leave for the Yucatan Peninsula, in addition to the 75 who left earlier for start the building works, for which the number of troops that will participate in the works would add up to 155.

The Tulum International Airport contemplates its construction on around 1,200 hectares southeast of Tulum, where there will also be room for a Military Air Base that will enhance the security and surveillance of the national airspace and will also dedicate efforts to assist the population in case of disasters. and forest fires.

The development of this new air terminal in Quintana Roo will trigger the construction of a commercial and service corridor along 10.5 kilometers of federal highway 307 and will promote the construction of an airport city with urban reordering.

The project includes the construction of a runway of around 3,700 meters, as well as a fuel terminal with a capacity of 6 million liters, a rescue and firefighting station, as well as a platform for fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

Also, it will have a passenger terminal, general aviation offices, parking for passengers, employees, taxis and buses, and a Mayan Train terminal.

Construction work on the civil airport facilities began in April and will conclude in December 2023. This new aeronautical complex will operate from May 2024, four months after the inauguration of the Mayan Train.

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