Querétaro Airport serves as the main hub for the regional airline TAR Aerolíneas and provides passenger flights to various cities in Mexico, as well as international services to the United States.
[2] Additionally, the airport plays a significant role as a hub for cargo flights, offering services to Mexico, the United States, and Europe.
[1] Furthermore, the airport ranks among the top ten in Mexico for international passenger traffic, and it is the fifth-largest in the country for cargo operations.
In 1986, the State Government decided to expand and modernize it, granting operational rights to the state-owned entity "Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares" (ASA).
[3]In the 1990s, there were efforts to establish Querétaro, alongside Toluca, Cuernavaca, and Puebla airports, as alternatives to alleviate air traffic congestion in the Mexico City Area.
In 2012, Aeromexico and Delta Air Lines jointly announced their plans to establish a maintenance base at Querétaro International Airport.
Nevertheless, the Los Angeles route concluded on March 28, 2018, and Chicago-Midway was replaced by Chicago-O'Hare in June 2019.The airport has consistently experienced growth.
Despite its potential to serve a region with nearly 5,000,000 people within a 100 kilometres (62 mi) radius, Querétaro Airport's capacities are not fully utilized.
[6][7][8] The airport is situated at an elevation of 1,969 metres (6,460 ft) above mean sea level, covering a total land area of 688 hectares (1,700 acres).
Its apron serves various purposes, catering to commercial, general, and cargo operations, and it can accommodate a total of 47 aircraft, occupying a combined surface area of 174,400 square metres (1,877,000 sq ft).
This new floor now houses a departures concourse with five gates, three of which are equipped with jet bridges.The Querétaro Intercontinental Airport is home to several significant cargo facilities, with major tenants including well-known companies such as DHL, FedEx, UPS, and Aeronaves TSM.
Furthermore, the airport hosts the largest Aircraft Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) company in Mexico, and it is the second-largest in Latin America.
In 2012, eight years after the inauguration of Queretaro's Intercontinental Airport, a consortium of multinational corporations, including Airbus, Delta, and Bombardier, collaborated with local entrepreneurs, research centers, and educational institutions to establish an innovation cluster aimed at fostering growth in the aerospace industry.
[13] They established a state-of-the-art facility in Querétaro, where highly skilled teams are engaged in the production of vital structural components for their leading business jets.