Mundo Maya International Airport | |
Nativename: | Aeropuerto Internacional Mundo Maya |
Iata: | FRS |
Icao: | MGMM |
Type: | Military/Public |
Operator: | Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil |
Location: | Flores, Guatemala |
Focus City: | TAG Airlines |
Metric-Elev: | yes |
Elevation-M: | 118 |
Coordinates: | 16.9139°N -89.8664°W |
Pushpin Map: | Guatemala Petén#Guatemala |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Petén Department##Location in Guatemala |
Pushpin Label: | MGMM |
Metric-Rwy: | yes |
R1-Number: | 10/28 |
R1-Length-M: | 3,000 |
R1-Surface: | Concrete |
Stat-Year: | 2022 |
Stat1-Header: | Total Passengers |
Stat1-Data: | 186,324 |
Footnotes: | Source: Guatemalan AIP[1] DGAC[2] |
Mundo Maya International Airport (Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto Internacional Mundo Maya,), formerly Flores International Airport as indicated by its IATA code, is an international airport located in the suburb of Santa Elena, in the city of Flores, Guatemala. It serves national and international air traffic for the areas of Flores, Santa Elena, and San Benito, as well as all the Maya sites of Tikal or Yaxhá and destinations such as Guatemala City and Belize.
The airport lacks many amenities compared to other airports its size. It only has 1 small cafe landside, and a large sitting area and shop airside. Despite its size and lack of jetbridges, lounges, and restaurant it is still Guatemala's second busiest airport.
Mundo Maya Airport, like other airports in Guatemala, is going through some expansions, to provide a better service to passengers and airlines, so it will be able to accept a greater number of flights and larger aircraft.In 2012, the ICAO airport identifier for Mundo Maya International Airport changed from MGTK to MGMM.[3]
Mundo Maya International airport is the country's second busiest airport and it is one of the busiest airports in Central America. In 2018, Mundo Maya International Airport reported 144,772 passengers, a 5.4% yearly increase
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Source: Directorate General of Civil Aviation |
Number of passengers! | Percentage change | Number of movements | Percentage change | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | 111,075 | N.A. | 6,826 | N.A. | |
2016 | 113,444 | 2.13% | 6,915 | 1.30% | |
2017 | 137,348 | 21.07% | 7,042 | 1.84% | |
2018 | 144,772 | 5.41% | 7,851 | 11.49% | |
Source: Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Guatemala |