Los Cabos International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Cabos |
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico | ||||||||||
Serves | Los Cabos | ||||||||||
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San José del Cabo, Los Cabos Municipality, Baja California Sur state, Mexico |
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Elevation AMSL | 374 ft / 114 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 23°09′06″N 109°43′15″W / 23.15167°N 109.72083°W | ||||||||||
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Location of airport in Baja California Sur | |||||||||||
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Source: Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico
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Total Passengers | 4,248,000 16.3% |
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Ranking in Mexico | 6th |
Los Cabos International Airport (IATA: SJD, ICAO: MMSD) is the sixth-busiest airport in Mexico, located at San José del Cabo in Los Cabos Municipality, Baja California Sur state, Mexico.
The airport serves San José del Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, and the Los Cabos area.
The airport has three terminals with 4 concourses. Terminal 1 serves both domestic and international operations for various air carriers while Terminal 3 services Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and other seasonal international carriers. From September 2011 until January 2012, the airport temporarily gained nonstop service to Asia with flights to Shanghai, China.
The airport handled 3,523,010 passengers in 2015, and 4,248,000 in 2016. It has become the most important airport in the state of Baja California Sur. Because of a dramatic increase in the number of holiday resorts and due to the region's fast population growth, the infrastructure of the airport is now insufficient compared to the increasing demand, causing a lack of available positions for aircraft during peak-hours, as in many other airports in Mexico.
On September 15, 2014, Los Cabos International Airport was badly damaged by Hurricane Odile. Planes were knocked against structures due to the winds from Odile. Many people went to the airport, demanding flights out of Cabo San Lucas. The Mexican government began airlifting the first of thousands of stranded tourists, free of charge, to airports in Tijuana, Mazatlan, Guadalajara and Mexico City to catch connecting flights and, in the case of foreigners, receive consular assistance. As of September 20, all of the people stranded in Cabo San Lucas were back in their hometowns.