GAP presents investment for the airports of Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta

The Pacific Airport Group (GAP) announced that it will invest 25,000 million pesos over the next five years to expand and modernize the 12 airports it operates in Mexico.

Carlos Alfonso Morán, Undersecretary of Transportation, explained that GAP will allocate 11,000 million to the Guadalajara airport and 3,750 million pesos to the Puerto Vallarta airport.

He recalled that the federal government signed –in November 2019–– with the private initiative, the national infrastructure investment agreement that adds about 500,000 million pesos in communications projects, of which the GAP is one of the leading investors.

He explained that in 2019 the airport sector served 155 million passengers, with an increase of 3.7% more than 2018. In the airports of the GAP 43.6 million passengers were transported.

The terminals of the international airports of Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta will be the first designed under the concept of environmental sustainability NET-ZERO that effectively integrates the sustainable management of the environment, recycling capacity, prioritization of regional materials, optimal use of water, air conditioning Passive and / or active high efficiency, indoor air quality, among other elements.

Laura Diez Barroso, president of the GAP Council, stressed that the investment for the next five years is “historic” and will favor the transport of passengers with a tourist and business vocation.

He explained that they will undertake the expansion of the Guadalajara International Airport to double the number of square meters of this air terminal.

He added that the airport network will increase the square meters of the terminals by 60% to serve passengers and operations.

A new terminal building of more than 35,000 square meters and eight contact positions will be built at the Puerto Vallarta International Airport.

For his part, Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, governor of Jalisco, mentioned that the future of Mexico is being built from the state and due to the economic dynamism of the entity, together with investments in process, better results will be generated in growth and development for Jalisco.

He added that the relevance of this investment is that Guadalajara is prepared to face the challenge of being able to build in the country, a network of effective airports that underpin competitiveness and strengthen the economy towards the future.

Meanwhile, Raúl Revuelta Musalem, director of the GAP, considered that the economic growth registered by the west of the country and the growing hotel investment in the beach destinations where they are present are the main arguments that motivated the investment.

"It's time to invest. Infrastructure always has to be seen in the long term, because the situation does not allow you to make good decisions. Beyond how much the country's economy grows, for example, we are sure that the assumptions of attraction to the country will return and for that we will be prepared. Our investors believe in Mexico, in what is coming. We think ahead: structural and not conjunctural, ”he explained.