ASUR Announces Total Passenger Traffic for February 2006
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A. de C.V. (ASUR) today announced that total passenger traffic for the month of February 2006 decreased by 16.7 percent when compared to February 2005.
All figures in this announcement reflect comparisons between the 28-day period February 1 through February 28, 2005 and 2006. Transit and general aviation passengers are excluded.
ASUR´s management believes that the lower passenger traffic numbers to Cancun and Cozumel during the period were largely the result of the reduction in available accommodation caused by Hurricane Wilma, which struck the region in October 2005 and caused widespread damage to the hotel infrastructure in
the region.
Cancun´s Municipal Tourism Authority estimates that of the 27,484 rooms available in Cancun prior to the hurricane, 17,328 or 63.0 percent were in operation
as of February 28, 2006.
Quintana Roo´s Tourism authorities estimate that there were 2,125 hotel
rooms in operation in Cozumel as February 28, 2006, representing 57% of the
approximately 3,730 hotel rooms available before the hurricanes.
At this time ASUR cannot estimate the impact that these events will have on passenger traffic for fiscal year 2006.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A. de C.V. (ASUR) is a Mexican airport operator with concessions to operate, maintain and develop the airports of Cancun, Merida, Cozumel, Villahermosa, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Huatulco, Tapachula and Minatitlan in the southeast of Mexico.