Coverage and practical guidance around Tulum International Airport, routes, transfers, delays, and airport operations.
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The 21 new winter flights to Cancún and Tulum start between October 25 and January 8. Canada supplies 13 of them, and Tulum airport gets seven, six Canadian and one from Newark.
Airlines are pulling 72 percent of this quarter’s US capacity to Tulum. Investors answer with Tulum luxury tourism, a Faena complex, and a 57-room UMusic hotel opening in December.
A Tulum airport name change is on the table after councilman Eugenio Barbachano said the terminal in Felipe Carrillo Puerto should stop carrying the destination’s name.
American Airlines Tulum flights lose Miami on January 5, 2027, leaving one daily Dallas jet with 78 seats as the airport’s operator projects US service nearly doubling.
AMATUR blames the Tulum airport military management for the airline exodus and wants a private sector council. The operator answers with 1,064 projected winter flights.
Fuel costs and route economics, not insecurity, explain the missing Tulum flights, the president said Thursday. International carriers are due back on October 24, and Mexicana adds 24 flights.
Tulum airport flight cuts took Aeroméxico out on September 30 and Volaris in January. Federal data show that the only routes growing this year are operated by the state airline, Mexicana.
Two national airlines quit Tulum airport in a single week. Behind the exits sits a 33.2 percent drop in traffic and a military group losing money across its tourism companies.
Aeroméxico has already flown its last. Volaris leaves on January 7, and Tulum airport flights are reduced to two Mexican carriers, while Punta Cana picks up the frequencies.
Aeromexico Tulum flights end on September 30, with none filed through August 2027. What the exit leaves on the domestic board, and what ticket holders can claim.
A direct flight from Chile to Tulum came up in a meeting with Chile's ambassador. No airline flies it, and the town also proposed a promotional deal with Viña del Mar.
Tulum airport flights return to five international cities this winter. Four are Canadian; the Newark route lasts 39 days, and the full schedule adds up to 10 weekly frequencies.
Tulum airport flights will cover 13 destinations with 10 airlines from October 25 to March 27. Four carriers are named, and the summer they follow closed at 15 percent occupancy.
Opemsa published the official results of the Tulum 100 at Tulum International Airport, with 22,783 attendees, 200 million pesos for the region, and a UN Tourism presentation next week.
Tulum airport vs Cancun airport, on real numbers. Thirteen scheduled nonstop routes against close to seventy, 118 kilometers of road, and a winter schedule officials count differently.
Repatriation flights at Tulum airport now move 1,000 to 1,200 passengers a month onto ADO buses, a flow the company says did not exist a year ago.
Tulum airport to Tulum town costs 175 pesos on the ADO coach, priced at launch, or over 1,000 pesos in a taxi. Coach times, the train, rentals, and what runs after dark.
Tulum airport deportation flights returned at least 150 Mexicans last week. Most arrived without belongings or money, relying on family to buy the tickets that would get them home.
Tulum tourism fell through 2026 while Mexico posted record arrivals. Airport routes, room rates, sargassum, and rents explain a correction that the winter schedule will finally measure.
State officials met the airport's administrator to plan the return of Tulum airport flights to Panama, Colombia and winter routes from Canada and Newark. Four international routes remain.
Federal aviation data puts Tulum airport passenger traffic at 471,500 for the first half of 2026, with international flyers down 41 percent and eight winter routes due back in October.
