Puerto Vallarta airport handled 354,000 passengers in October, down 19.8% from a year earlier. Domestic and international traffic both fell.
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, November 10, 2026 – Puerto Vallarta International Airport handled 354,000 passengers in October, down 19.8% from a year earlier, according to preliminary figures from Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico.
The airport counted about 87,400 fewer passengers than it did in October 2025. Domestic traffic fell 19.4% to 196,500 passengers, while international traffic fell 20.3% to 157,500. The figures count people flying in and out.
The drop was nearly twice the 10.4% decline Vallarta recorded in September. It was also steeper than the 7.6% decline across the 12 Mexican airports GAP operates. Of those airports, only Mexicali posted a bigger percentage drop in October.
Hurricane Simón interrupted flights
Volaris canceled flights to and from Puerto Vallarta for October 10 and 11 as Hurricane Simón approached. The airport closed at 6 p.m. on October 10, and GAP cleared commercial flights to resume just after midnight on October 13. It remains unclear how much of the October decline came from the closure.
The airport was already having a slower year. Through October, it handled 4.89 million passengers, down 12.9% from the same stretch last year. International traffic fell 19.5% and accounted for about four-fifths of the year-to-date decline. Domestic traffic fell 5.2%.
More seats for the winter season
Before the storm, GAP chief executive Raúl Revuelta Musalem said that the violence in Jalisco had hit airport traffic particularly hard in February and March. In the September interview, he said he expected traffic to improve as the winter season picked up around U.S. Thanksgiving. “Many of the airline seats we lost are coming back,” he said in Spanish.
Porter Airlines’ first nonstop flight from Edmonton landed November 3 with 113 passengers aboard. The airline scheduled three flights a week on the seasonal route. Last November, the airport counted 618,900 passengers, including 361,900 on international flights.
