Puebla International Airport

Puebla (Hermanos Serdán) International Airport
Aeropuerto Internacional de Puebla Hermanos Serdán

IATA: PBC – ICAO: MMPB

PBC
Location of airport in Mexico

Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares
Serves Puebla
Location Puebla, Puebla
Elevation AMSL 7,361 ft / 2,244 m
Coordinates 19°09′29″N 98°22′17″W / 19.15806°N 98.37139°WCoordinates: 19°09′29″N 98°22′17″W / 19.15806°N 98.37139°W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 11,811 3,600 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Total Passengers 285,041
Source: Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares

Puebla International Airport,[1] officially Hermanos Serdán International Airport (IATA: PBC, ICAO: MMPB) is an international airport located near Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. It handles national and international air traffic for the city of Puebla. It also serves as an alternate airport for Mexico City, being part of the metropolitan airport group for the Mexican capital, comprising the airports of Mexico City, Toluca, Cuernavaca and Querétaro. The airport used to be a hub for Puebla Air Lines before it ceased operations in 1995.

The airport was inaugurated on 18 November 1985 and since 2001 was given in concession to Operadora Estatal de Aeropuertos (OEA) for operation and development. OEA is a company founded specifically to manage and carry out investments to extend airport facilities. The following entities take part in OEA's establishment:

In 2003 the US Trade and Development Agency (TDA) provided a grant for US $550,000 to OEA to enable the completion of a project feasibility study regarding the upgrade of the Puebla International Airport. OEA subsequently retained the services of The Louis Berger Group Inc. from the US to complete the study, which concludes that in the long term the airport might serve up to 15 million passengers annually considering that the city of Puebla is ranked number four among Mexican cities based on its population.

Airport development information

In recent years, the Puebla International Airport has showed a notable growth in passenger volume, operations and freight. In 2007 the Logistic Airport Center was opened offering all the facilities for the managing and commercial processing of cargo.

Presently, the airport has reached historical levels in its operative indicators. This situation has permitted members of the Board of Directors to support the decision to begin immediate actions to increase the capacity of the airport in the platforms areas and the Passenger Terminal Building as well.

According to Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, in 2013 Puebla air terminal served 292,152 passengers, whereas in 2014 it received 285,041 passengers.

To arrive at Puebla International Airport there are two main approaches: the first one is through the Mexico - Puebla toll motorway taking the road out at San Miguel Xoxtla; the second choice is driving along the Cholula - Huejotzingo boulevard to the access road to the airport, just a bit before coming the village of Huejotzingo.

At the moment, the airport is equipped with a 6 position platform of category D and a terminal building with capacity to take care of 450 passengers per hour.

The new terminal building will be roughly 226% larger than the current one. By investing over USD $15 million, it will be possible to serve 1.1 million passengers in one year. This amount might be even higher assuming a proper air operation distribution.

This airport handles two thousand tons a year in textile products, vehicle motor parts, machinery, post pieces, airborne parcels service and perishables such as fruits and flowers.

As of May 12, 2012, the airport has been closed several times due to volcanic ash from Popocatépetl volcano.

Airlines and destinations

United Express Embraer ERJ 145 and Malinche mountain
Parking lot and Popocatepetl volcano and Iztaccihuatl mountain.
Airlines Destinations
Aeromar Guadalajara
Aeroméxico Connect Monterrey
American Eagle Dallas/Fort Worth
Copa Airlines Panama City (begins August 4, 2015)[2]
United Express Houston-Intercontinental
Volaris Cancún, Monterrey, Tijuana

Busiest routes

Busiest domestic routes at Puebla International Airport (2014)[3]
Rank City Passengers Ranking Airline
1  Baja California, Tijuana 38,034 Steady Volaris
2  Quintana Roo, Cancún 37,738 Steady Volaris
3  Nuevo León, Monterrey 28,770 Steady Aeroméxico Connect, Volaris
4  Jalisco, Guadalajara 5,333 Steady Aeromar, Volaris
5  Nayarit, Tepic 442
6  México (state), Toluca 168
7  Coahuila, Torreón 132 Steady
8  Oaxaca, Oaxaca 90 Decrease 2
9  Tamaulipas, Matamoros 64 Decrease 4
10  Zacatecas, Zacatecas 41

See also

References

  1. ↑ Page on airport authority website
  2. ↑ "COPA Airlines Announces Two New Destinations in Mexico and one in the United States (in Spanish)". En el Aire. February 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  3. ↑ "Air Operational Statistics". Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. January 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-20.

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