Cancun International Airport closed last year with 29.3 million passengers, a 3.5% decrease compared to 2014. The largest decline was on domestic international routes, with the most significant drop seen in destinations like Puerto Vallarta, which reported a decrease of 137,000 passengers, and Los Cabos, which showed an increase of 30,000 passengers.
According to the report from Aeropuertos del Sureste (ASUR), the 2025 year-end figures show a decrease of 1.1 million passengers, below the number recorded in 2024, meaning the terminal has now experienced two consecutive years of no growth. International passenger traffic decreased by 710,000 passengers, falling from 21.6 million travelers in 2024 to 20.9 million in 2025.
Year-over-year passenger traffic figures show that domestic traffic decreased by 355,000 passengers, with 10.2 million traveling in 2024 compared to 9.8 million in 2025.
Bernardo Cueto Riestra, the state Secretary of Tourism, attributed the result to the shortage of airline seats experienced throughout 2025 due to technical repairs that forced airlines to ground thousands of aircraft worldwide.
He stated, however, that the 29.3 million passengers is still a very good figure, given that the previous record high before the pandemic was around 27 million passengers annually.
He also noted that the one million passengers lost by Cancún were offset by the nearly 1.3 million handled by Tulum Airport, which, despite flight cancellations throughout 2025, surpassed its previous records in just two years of operation.
He also mentioned Cozumel’s contribution, which closed the year with 646,606 passengers, nearly 400,000 of whom were international. He asserted that figures from a single airport do not reflect the true performance of international tourism in the Mexican Caribbean throughout 2025. (With information from Jesús Vázquez)
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Source: sipse
