In the days before and on Christmas 2024, the “Manuel Crescencio Rejón” international airport handled more than 11,000 passengers daily, arriving and departing from Mérida.
With this same dynamism, according to the predictions of the general administrator of the Mérida airport, Oscar Carrillo Maldonado, the end of the year and the first week of January 2025 would continue, which is when the December 2024 holiday season ends.
Carrillo Maldonado reported that the high demand for flights to Mérida and other destinations from this city was reflected in the number of daily aircraft operations, which totaled 180 per day, including passenger planes, cargo planes, and private aviation, but especially commercial flight operations, which averaged 76 daily.
Regarding the percentage in which travelers and operations increased during the days before Christmas, compared to 2023, he said that it is very similar to last year because this year that is ending many Airbus company aircraft were grounded for maintenance reasons worldwide.
In Mexico, it mainly affected Volaris due to the inspections of the Pratt & Whitney engines that kept its aircraft grounded. For this reason, according to Carrillo Maldonado, the number of passengers did not grow in the percentages that Grupo Asur had planned compared to previous years.
The administrator of the Mérida airport highlighted that the air terminal of this city was one of the airports where Volaris flies that least suffered the lack of this company’s aircraft due to that review.
He reiterated that according to the guidelines of the stock exchanges where Grupo Asur is listed, the airport cannot give or advance figures for the end of the month or the year. Volaris, according to its preliminary report that it gave in July 2024 on its operations, recognized that aircraft inspection decreased its capacity by 15.0%, compared to 2023, due to the fact that the aircraft was grounded. Until that report, Volaris had transported 2.7 million passengers.
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