Mexico's Busiest Private Aviation Airports: 2025 Ranking

Toluca closed 2025 with roughly 68,000 non-commercial operations, at least 1.7 times more than any other airport in the country. It's the clearest finding in a ranking that, surprisingly, nobody publishes: unlike the United States, where the FAA counts every departure, Mexico doesn't report how much private aviation each airport handles.

So we rebuilt it. We cross-referenced AFAC's airport statistics with its origin-destination data and with the annual reports GAP, ASUR and OMA file with the SEC. It's the Mexican take on Forbes' analysis of the busiest US private jet airports, with one difference: here, there are numbers.

The 2025 ranking

Estimated general aviation operations in 2025: takeoffs and landings that aren't scheduled or charter airline flights. Where the calculation gives a range, the order uses the midpoint.

Just below are Hermosillo (12,800 – 15,400), Puebla (~13,700), Monterrey Mariano Escobedo (10,800 – 16,300) and Los Cabos (7,500 – 14,000). So far in 2026, from January to August, Toluca has logged about 45,200 non-commercial operations: the same pace as last year.

What the ranking reveals

1. Toluca has no rival

Toluca handled 81,748 operations in 2025 —about 224 a day— and only 13,468 were airline flights. That leaves close to 68,000 private and general aviation operations: roughly one in every seven in the country among the airports AFAC reports.

The reason is structural. Mexico City International (AICM) practically doesn't take private aviation —only about 5,500 operations outside scheduled airline service in all of 2025— so all of the Mexico City area's demand flies out of Toluca. We cover it in detail in Toluca vs. Santa Lucía for private flights and in our Toluca FBO guide.

2. "General aviation" doesn't mean private jet

The statistics lump together business jets, offshore oil helicopters, training aircraft and agricultural aviation. Ciudad del Carmen makes the top 5 because of the helicopters flying to the Bay of Campeche platforms, and Cuernavaca because of its flight schools.

A jets-only ranking would look different, but nobody in Mexico publishes operations by aircraft type. That's why this table is best read alongside our guide to the best airports for private aviation, which compares runways, FBOs and infrastructure.

3. Monterrey is the second city of private aviation

Adding up its two airports, Monterrey handles between 37,000 and 42,500 general aviation operations a year. Del Norte, the airport dedicated to this segment, reported 23,458 operations from January to August 2026, 58% more than in the same period of 2025. Part of the jump may be reporting: AFAC only started including it in 2024.

4. Beach destinations hide their private traffic

In Cancún, general aviation is only 2% to 8% of operations, and in Los Cabos 11% to 20%: the huge commercial volume dilutes it. On top of that, much of Los Cabos' private traffic lands at Cabo San Lucas, a private airport that doesn't appear in AFAC's statistics.

The pressure peaks in high season, from November to March. Universal Weather and Aviation reports waits of up to 40 minutes at the Comandancia in Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta, Mérida, Cozumel and Cancún during those months. If you're flying over Christmas or Easter, factor it in when planning your flight to Los Cabos or to Cancún.

5. Airport groups are already investing in private aviation

Mexico's three private airport groups logged 274,246 general aviation operations in 2025:

• OMA: 106,587 operations, 31.5% of all its traffic.
• GAP: 105,500 operations, 18.7%.
• ASUR: 62,159 operations, 17.6%.

The investment follows. GAP runs a 5,000 m² hangar inside its FBO in Los Cabos, opened an FBO in La Paz, and in Guadalajara brought in Universal Aviation plus 30,000 m² of temporary aircraft parking. ASUR runs its own FBO in Cancún.

How we built the estimate

General aviation = total airport operations − airline flights (scheduled and charter, domestic and international).

• Total operations: 2025 annual reports from GAP, ASUR and OMA for their 34 airports; AFAC airport statistics for the rest (Toluca, Querétaro, Del Norte, Cuernavaca, Ciudad del Carmen and Puebla).
• Airline flights: AFAC's 2025 origin-destination statistics, counting each flight as one departure and one arrival.
• Ranges: the origin-destination data doesn't match exactly what each group reports as commercial (about 10% below for GAP, 5% above for OMA). The range runs from the direct calculation to one adjusted so that each group's total matches the general aviation the group itself reports.
• Limits: this is an estimate, not an official figure. It doesn't separate jets from helicopters or light aircraft, and it excludes airfields outside AFAC's statistics, such as Cabo San Lucas or Atizapán.

Sources

• AFAC — Airport operational statistics 2006–2026
• AFAC — 2025 origin-destination statistics
• GAP — 2025 Form 20-F
• ASUR — 2025 Form 20-F
• OMA — 2025 Form 20-F
• Universal Weather and Aviation — Mexico: 2025 Business Aviation Destination Guide
• Forbes — What The Top 10 Busiest U.S. Private Jet Airports Reveal About The Industry