In spite of nearly $40 million invested this year in modernization, the Cuernavaca airport is losing commercial service. Volaris has announced it will be pulling out in September. At one point, it had been hoped that Cuernavaca would complement Toluca and Puebla as an alternative to congested Mexico City international. Often thought of as a weekend retreat for Mexico City, Cuernavaca, with its much vaunted “eternal spring” is also a manufacturing center turning out Nissan automobiles, among other things. With a population of more than one million, Cuernavaca appears big enough to support an airport, but MEX is only about a 90-minute drive away with frequent flights to just about anywhere.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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