How many airports are there in Mexico?

Mexico has 77 airports open to civil air traffic, of which 64 hold international status and 13 are domestic, according to the civil aviation authority's registry. Passenger traffic, however, is concentrated in a handful of facilities: Mexico City International Airport and Felipe Ángeles together handle a very significant share of the country's flights, along with regional hubs such as Cancún, Guadalajara, Monterrey and Tijuana. Most of the 77 airports, by contrast, handle modest domestic traffic or seasonal flights tied to beach tourism, with just a few daily frequencies.

Mexico does not run its airports through a single state operator: the system is divided between Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares (ASA), which operates lower-traffic regional airfields, and several airport groups that manage the larger ones under concession, including Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte and Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste. Each group holds several airports under the same multi-decade concession granted by the state, a partial-privatization model adopted in the late 1990s that coexists with facilities under military or state ownership and management.

The figure of 77 covers only facilities recognized as airports and open to civil traffic. Mexico also has hundreds of registered airfields, heliports and private or agricultural strips that do not offer regular commercial flights and are not part of that count: that is why lists circulating online may cite several hundred "airports" without contradicting the official figure, because they are counting something different.