Cabo San Lucas' New Private
International Airport,
Just Minutes From Town.

The tourist development of the Los Cabos resort area is in full growth. Due to its location at the southernmost tip of the Baja California Sur Peninsula in México, its main access is via air. International air traffic passengers represent 85% of all tourist traffic to Los Cabos. From 1989 to 2004 the number of passengers has increased four times. Today 2.5 millions passengers arrive to the International Airport of Los Cabos annually, with 11 regular operating airlines, 8 of which are North American and 3 are Mexican, plus 5 charter airlines. The traffic, both for general aviation flights as well as the executive jets, as of this date is over 5,000 flights per year coming into the Los Cabos International Airport. During the holiday season towards the end of the year, this number of flights can get as high as 144 in one day.

There are two Airport facilities in the Los Cabos area; the International Airport in San Jose del Cabo, and the Airport of Cabo San Lucas. These two airports are basically located one at each end of the tourist corridor, which is a distance of approximately 21 miles, connecting the two cities. The runway of Cabo San Lucas Airport is 5,000 feet long, and it is in process of being enlarged to 7,000 feet **. A Gulfstream G550 Aircraft, one of the biggest of the executive jets, needs only 5,900 feet of runway to take-off with its maximum weight.

** The John Wayne Airport in Southern California has a runway of 5,700 feet long,
    and they have outbound commercial flights daily to Hawaii.

The Cabo San Lucas International Airport is located 4.5 miles to the northwest of this tourist mecca, in an area known as Mesa Colorada.

It has an elevation of 210 meters (690’), it has a runway of 1523 x 30 m (5,000 x 100 feet) asphalted, and oriented 11 – 29. It currently offers two platforms to the general and executive aviation; one of these platforms is 160,000 sq ft and the other 75,000 sq ft, and a terminal of 8,100 sq ft.

It has a service supply of av gas LL, and jet fuel A, and it operates in visual conditions (VFR) offering working hours from 7 AM to 7PM local time.

This airport is the base for an airline operating 5 single-engine airplanes, turbo-prop (13 seats) with daily flights across the Sea of Cortes, to Mazatlán, Culiacán, Puerto Vallarta, Ciudad Constitución, Ciudad Obregón, and Los Mochis; and of two aerotaxis, one is a jet and the other a turbo-prop. Coming soon are services for air ambulances, with a jet aircraft and a helicopter.

Currently, it is the permanent base of 12 private aircrafts, among which there is one owned by a sport parachuting club and one of a flying club school.

The Airport in Cabo San Lucas is located only a short distance from town (approximately 15 minutes). Its access road is about to be upgraded to four lanes made of hydraulic concrete, which will reduce the travel time to 10 minutes. This modernization plan, the master 'Development Plan' is based and supported in the certainty that it would result in being much more convenient for a big part of the aviation market to arrive at Cabo San Lucas Airport.

Various lots were purchased to execute the works for the modernization and equipment in process, therefore there is sufficient land for passengers terminals, cargo services, workshops, storage, fiscal installations, shipping, commercial distribution centers, a hotel, retail mall, etc.

The company who owns the airport has finished the necessary project studies, and has completed a master plan that will be executed in 7 Phases. As of this date the first phase has been completed, and the second phase is about to begin, including the FBO.

Once these two phases are finished, which essentially consist on the enlarging and widening of the runway, navigation aids and air traffic control radar approach and control tower, lighting, and visual aids PAPIS, the FBO with all the ground support equipment, and hangers. The International Airport of Cabo San Lucas will be able to absorb 100% of the general aviation and executive jets by offering better operation conditions in an Airport that practically is being built just to suit them, and above all, it is located only 10 minutes away from their destination in Cabo San Lucas.

The Airport has a full time aeronautical authority in place, and it has all the operation permits and authorizations required for its equipment and modernization works. Its conversion into a modern international Airport has received all the support of the Municipal, State and Federal authorities.

Cabo San Lucas is the main attraction of the area, and it is there where the biggest percentage of hotels and resorts are found, habitation for the tourism, entertainment centers, economic activity, marine and sport fishing. Cabo is the farthest point away from the International Airport (1:15 hrs by the Tran peninsular highway and 45 minutes using the toll highway).

Its proximity to the most attractive zone of Los Cabos, makes the International Airport of Cabo San Lucas the ideal spot to convert it into an international Airport with all the services and facilities required to attend the flights of executive international jets,

and eventually for the new regular, national charter and international airlines that no longer can find a place at San Jose del Cabo International Airport at the most convenient hours of operation (12 pm to 4 pm) because of insufficient gates and limited capacity of the airport (25 ops/hr), which is due to the lack of a parallel taxi way along the current runway.

Because of this, San Jose del Cabo International Airport has already warned the general and executive aviations that there are no longer any more places to stay overnight at the platforms and parking area; therefore they must look for other alternatives, the most logical one is Cabo San Lucas Airport.

The airport is owned by a private entity named “Aeropuerto Cabo San Lucas Internacional SA de CV”. Its majority stockholder is Lic. Sebastian Romo Carrillo. The modernization works and equipment in process have received total support and approval from the Federal, Municipal and State authorities.

There is a 4 lines highway already planned to connect the tourist corridor with the highway to Todos Santos and La Paz, this highway will run close to the northern boundary of the Cabo Airport.