Mexico’s Tourism Ministry reported that in January and February 2022, the country’s commercial aviation market was just a step away from matching pre-pandemic 2019 indicators. Domestic operations are already operating almost normally, just 3.1% of the time before COVID-19, while international is down 13.2%.
Miguel Torruco MarcheMinister of Tourism of Mexico, announced through a statement Results of air passenger traffic in the country in January and February 2022and it follows Full recovery of pre-pandemic data is just one step away.
In the first place he pointed out that the domestic registered a total of 7,364,000 passengers in the first two monthsthat is 49.5% more and, more importantly, only 3.1% of the 2019 figureswhich allows us to confirm that it is already working at practically normal levels.
Source: Sector Mexico
The official claimed that in a little more detail Volaris and Viva Aerobus were the companies with the most flights in these monthsTransport of a total of 5,519,000, with both exceed their 2019 mark by 46.8%.
For international flights, 7,276,000 passengers flew in or out of the country in the first two months, also very close to pre-coronavirus levels but in this case down 13.2%, with a strong boost from the US and also from Canada.
According to Torruco Marques, Connections with North America accounted for 83.8% of Mexico’s international traffic. In this sense, he pointed out that American Airlines and United Airlines were the US airlines that had the largest passenger flow in the first two months of 2022, adding 1,746,000 travelers, up from 15.1% in 2019.
While, The Mexican airlines that carried the most international passengers were Aeroméxico and Volariswith 1,382,000 people, 11.6% of what was registered before the pandemic.
The European market continues to gradually recover, accounting for 8.5% of the total market Central and South America registered only 580,946 passengersa growth of 176.6% compared to 2021, but still far from its normal performance.