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Latin America has more airports than Asia and Europe combined.
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Mexico City is home to the busiest airport in Latin America.
This past year, 154K passengers traveled through the Benito Juárez International Airport daily. Before the pandemic, the airport was adding about 3M additional passengers served per year, peaking at around 50M.
What's more, Mexico is also home to the 2nd-busiest airport in the region's top 5. Cancun's airport carries about as many passengers as those of Buenos Aires and Lima combined. That's not bad for a mainly tourist destination.
In Brazil's case, the numbers tell a slightly different story. São Paulo's main airport, Guarulhos, is third-busiest in LatAm, but the city is also home to Congonhas airport. When combine the flight traffic of both, São Paulo is the most popular flight destination in the region.
LatAm's biggest country has a massive flight industry: 12 out of the 30 busiest airports in the region are in Brazil. The national aviation market, meanwhile, is worth some $10B in annual revenue.
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