Passenger movement at Querétaro airport up by 25% in Q1

Continuing its accelerated growth, the Querétaro International Airport (QRO) saw 25% much passengers successful the archetypal 4th of 2025 compared to past year.

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) reported that successful January, QRO saw a 29.2% emergence successful rider numbers, followed by 18.8% maturation successful February and a 26.8% leap successful March.

In home rider traffic, QRO recorded yearly maturation of 34.9% successful Q1. In contrast, planetary rider postulation went up by 7.1%. 

March successful peculiar saw a grounds fig of passengers compared to erstwhile years, moving a full of 190,322. This made it the airport’s busiest March since the commencement of airdrome postulation recordkeeping successful 2006.

Domestic question represented 70% of the flights taken from Querétaro betwixt January and March, up from 64.9% successful the aforesaid play of 2024, erstwhile the percent of planetary question was 35.1%.

Still, wide aerial operations astatine QRO, which includes non-flight activities, decreased 6.4% implicit 2024, with 12,094 aerial operations. This diminution was chiefly driven by a important driblet (30.3%) successful aerial operations successful February.  

Viva Aerobús announces 4-billion-peso concern successful QRO

QRO moved 18,486.9 tonnes of cargo successful the archetypal 3 months of the year, reflecting a 4% increase. Meanwhile, cargo measurement successful March grew 27% year-on-year.

QRO is welcoming an expanding fig of planetary flights aft the authorities completed an 80-million-peso enlargement project astatine the airdrome successful December 2023. Some of these caller destinations see a nonstop Querétaro-Madrid formation operated by Spanish hose Iberojet, starting successful October this year. 

Querétaro Tourism Minister Marco Antonio del Prete Tercero besides precocious announced a caller nonstop formation betwixt QRO and Los Angeles, California, starting successful July. He added that the airdrome is presently successful talks with Panama-based Copa Airlines astir starting a non-stop way betwixt Querétaro and Panama City. 

With reports from NMas and El Economista