Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport


Guadalajara International Airport, officially known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport , is the main airport of Mexico's second-largest city Guadalajara. Opened in 1966, it is located 16 km south of the city center. In 2018 it handled 14,340,152 passengers, and 14,823,592 in 2019, an increase of 3.37%.It is Latin America's tenth and Mexico's third-busiest airport, after Mexico City International Airport and Cancún International Airport and second-busiest for cargo flights.
Guadalajara's International Airport consists of two runways and one terminal.
It is also a major airport for connections, being a hub for Volaris, for which it is a primary gateway to the United States, and as well Aeroméxico. It is also a focus city for Interjet, and VivaAerobus. Flights are offered to destinations within Mexico and to Central America and the United States.
The airport is named for Miguel Hidalgo, who began the war that brought Mexican independence from Spain. He has been called the "father of Mexican independence".
In 2020, it was announced that the Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico group have invested around $14 billion pesos to build a new runway and terminal building, along with new facilities and improvements such as an expanded parking lot, a hotel, office block, and a solar-powered plant. Additionally, the airport aims to expand services to the United States as well as Europe. Expected to be completed by 2024, it is part of GAP's new expansion plan for its airports in the state of Jalisco, both Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, and its total budget is $18 billion pesos.

Terminals

Passenger terminal

The Passenger Terminal or Terminal 1, is used by all airlines for international and domestic flights. The terminal has customs facilities. There are also 27 remote parking positions. It also has 12 jetways and 5 concourses:
The Cargo Terminal was recently expanded and has a capacity to store approximately 350,000 tons of goods annually in its 27,000 square meters. It has 6 positions that can handle any kind of major aircraft.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

Amenities

Restaurants

Statistics

Annual traffic

Busiest routes

RankCityPassengersRankingAirline
1, Los Angeles495,421Aeroméxico, Alaska Airlines, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
2, Chicago 189,560Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
3, Houston151,952 1United Airlines, United Express, VivaAerobus, Volaris
4, San Jose126,037 1Aeroméxico, Alaska Airlines, Volaris
5, Sacramento120,468Aeroméxico, Volaris
6, Dallas118,444American Airlines, Volaris
7, Fresno111,631Aeroméxico, Volaris
8, Las Vegas103,374 1Interjet, Volaris
9, San Francisco95,542 1Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris
10, Oakland67,066 1Volaris
11, Phoenix–Sky Harbor57,899 1American Eagle, Volaris
12, Ontario57,877 1Volaris
13, Atlanta50,364 3Delta Air Lines
14, San Antonio47,781 4Interjet, Volaris
15, Seattle44,495 1Volaris
16, Portland44,472 2Volaris
17, Salt Lake City31,816 2Aeroméxico Connect
18, New York-JFK29,808 3Volaris
19, Denver29,077Volaris
20, Panama City25,513 3Copa Airlines

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Local conflicts

Recently, the expansion projects are being delayed due to conflicts with the local residents. Also, several protests were made, blocking the parking lot access many times. These expansion projects include new and better access to the terminal, and it would take 3 years to build a 2nd runway. The locals argue that Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico has debts to the land where the airport sits on because of expropriation of land, which was taken from locals in 1975 to expand the airport. This terrain consists of the airport's polygon plus 320 hectares — of which 51 hectares will be used to build the 2nd runway. Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico urged the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation to resolve the problems by delaying the airport's 2nd runway construction. With this new runway and the expansion of the terminal building, the airport will be able to handle over 40 million passengers.
. If not negotiated the next step could be another expropriation to complete the project.

Accidents and incidents