Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional de Puerto Vallarta Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico | ||||||||||
Serves | Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit | ||||||||||
Location | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco | ||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 23 ft / 7 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 20°40′48″N 105°15′15″W / 20.68000°N 105.25417°WCoordinates: 20°40′48″N 105°15′15″W / 20.68000°N 105.25417°W | ||||||||||
Website | aeropuertosgap.com.mx | ||||||||||
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Source: Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico
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Total passengers | 4,063,300 13.1% |
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Ranking in Mexico | 7th |
Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport (sometimes abbreviated as Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport) (IATA: PVR, ICAO: MMPR) is an international airport located at Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco in Mexico. The airport is named after President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964–70). It handled 3,517,801 passengers in 2015 and 4,063,300 passengers in 2016.
Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport is mainly a tourist airport, with most passengers visiting the airport in the winter, spring and early summer, just before the rainy season hits the area. The airport serves multiple destinations in North America, and the British tourist airline Thomson Airways serves the airport with two weekly year-round flights to both London-Gatwick and Manchester using their Boeing 787 aircraft. The Thomson Airways flight from Manchester to Puerto Vallarta is also the airline's longest route currently. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston are the busiest international routes from the airport, serving more that than 100 thousand passengers annually. Among all airlines that serve the airport, Westjet serves the greatest number of international destinations, connecting 13 different Canadian cities with Puerto Vallarta during the high season. Free Wifi is available throughout the airport, and food services and shopping are both abundant after clearing security.
Puerto Vallarta has seen recent growth and expansion due to higher demand. In recent year multiple airlines have expanded at the airport along with new airlines, and aircraft upgrades. Air Transat, one of the largest airlines at the airport, has had aircraft upgrades in recent years. Seasonally, Air Transat services their Airbus A310 from Toronto, Québec City, Montreal, Regina, Calgary and Edmonton. From Montreal and Vancouver Air Transat upgraded to their largest aircraft, the Airbus A330s. Air Canada's subsidiary airline Air Canada Rouge connects Vancouver, Toronto y con la nueva ruta Montreal to Puerto Vallarta, with their Airbus A321 and Boeing 767-300 twice daily year round. The newest airline serving the airport is Southwest Airlines, which began service to Puerto Vallarta in June 2015 to Orange County.