Tulum airport

This airport began construction work in early June 2022 and will be built on 1,200 hectares of land.

It is contemplated that once completed, it will have 13 aircraft parking positions that will allow sufficient operations to receive 4 million passengers per year, a little less than one-sixth of the more than 25 million that Cancun’s airport received in 2019, before the pandemic.

The development of this new air terminal in Quintana Roo will trigger the construction of a commercial and service corridor along 10.5 kilometers of Federal Highway 307 and will promote the construction of an airport city with urban redevelopment.

The bidding for the construction contracts was to be concluded in March 2011.

As of April 2014, all projects related to the Tulum Airport ceased to be available through official sites, and following the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president in 2018, emphasis was placed on the high-speed transpeninsular train, the Tren Maya.

However, in recent years, plans were re-established and the airport is scheduled to open in December 2023.

In March 2022, President López Obrador informed that 80 military engineers will leave for the construction of the Tulum International Airport and sections 6 and 7 of the Mayan Train to the Yucatán Peninsula, in addition to the 75 who left the previous day to begin construction work, bringing the total number of military personnel participating in the works to 155