New Sanitation Protocols at Cancun International Airport

Mexican Caribbean Airports and Airlines

According to the results of the survey program administered by the Airports Council International (ACI), in 2009 Cancun Airport was rated by passengers as the airport that provides the best service in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Mexican Caribbean shows a rapid increase in the arrival of flights to the airports of Quintana Roo. In fact, some new routes have already started operating in the first days of December 2020. Cancun International Airport managed to reestablish air connection with the main national and international destinations during the process of economic reactivation months after the confinement due to the pandemic.

Among the destinations with regular flights to Cancun are: Atlanta, Baltimore, Bogota, Boston, Camagüey, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Philadelphia, Frankfurt, Guatemala, Holguin, Houston, Havana, Lima, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Orlando, Panama, Paris, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Washington, along with domestic flights such as CDMX, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Tijuana, Villahermosa, Oaxaca, León, Toluca, among others.

Despite the pandemic, the United States continues to be the main international market for the Mexican Caribbean. With 1.2 million tourists, almost half of the 2.5 million foreign tourists that arrived between January and October of this year coming from the US.

Air connectivity in the Mexican Caribbean also resumes with Europe. British Airways recently landed at Cancun International Airport, coming from London-Gatwick, with three weekly frequencies. Also Lufthansa Frankfurt, Zurich with Edelweiss, and Air France from Paris that started in October.

National connectivity also continues to rise, recently Volaris inaugurated its new flight to Cancun from the City of Oaxaca, with three flights a week.

And South America is not far behind. On December 27, 2020, the Sky Airline airline began to operate in Mexico. It will service flights to Cancun International Airport, from Lima, Peru.

The airlines that fly and operate to and from the Cancun Airport airport are:

Terminal 2
Aeromexico
Aerolineas Argentinas
Air Transat
AirTran Airways
Alaska Airlines
Belair Airlines
Copa Airlines
Cubana de Aviación
Dynamic Airways
First Choice Airways
Interjet
Jetair
Lan Chile
SkyService Airlines
Southwest Airlines
SunWing Airlines
Varig
Volaris

Terminal 3
Air Berlin
Air Canada
Air Europa
American Airlines
British Airways
Condor
Continental Airlines
Delta Airlines
Frontier Airlines
Iberia
Iberworld
JetBlue Airways
Spirit Airlines
Sun Country Airlines
Thomas Cook
Thomson Fly
United Airlines
USA 3000
WestJet

Terminal 4
Lufthansa
Thomas Cook
Air France
WestJet
Sun Country Airlines
Interjet
Frontier Airlines
Virgin Atlantic
Air Transat
Air Europa
AeroMexico
Southwest Condor

New Sanitation Protocols at Cancun International Airport

Mexico is completely open to tourism, with no mandatory 14-day quarantine for any nationality entering the country. It is respecting the health security protocols, such as healthy distance and mandatory masks, and invites visitors to respect the sanitary measures during their visit to the Mexican Caribbean. Cancun Airport has implemented strict security measures for all travelers.

Cancun Airport has implemented strict security measures for all travelers.

Healthy Distance – Signs have been placed on the floor that indicates the recommended distance, including elevators, restrooms,
counter area, boarding rooms, boarding corridors, and security filters. Intermediate seats
in airport waiting rooms have been blocked.

Hand Sanitizer Dispensers – Hand sanitizer dispensers were placed in the entrances and exits of the airport, near the escalators and elevators, waiting rooms,and restrooms.

Employee mitigation measures – Airport staff must go through temperature controls on a daily basis and wear face masks, face shields, gloves, and personal antibacterial gel.

Cleaning and disinfection – Includes constant cleaning and disinfection of public areas. Sanitize transport units with constant and personal sanitation to carry out this work thoroughly every night.

Travel Risk Factor Questionnaire – The application of a questionnaire for the identification of risk factors in travelers was established, on paper and electronically. All passengers, either upon arrival or departure, must fill out the questionnaire.

Temperature sensors – Temperature checkpoints were installed in passenger arrivals and departures with state-of-the-art technology.

These are just some of the health and safety protocols implemented by the Cancun airport. And with which our destination is prepared and ready to receive visitors from all over the world who will be received with the well known Mexican hospitality.