Available seats at Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP) fell 7.3% in October, outpacing the 7% drop in passengers to 4.53 million across the company’s Mexico and Jamaica network.
GAP’s preliminary figures, released Nov. 9, put the total at 4,531.4 thousand, compared with 4,872.2 thousand in October 2025. Domestic passengers fell 11.2% to 2,673.6 thousand from 3,012.2 thousand, a loss of 338,600. International traffic edged down 0.1% to 1,857.9 thousand from 1,860.0 thousand.
The domestic reduction was close to the network’s net decline of 340,800 passengers. Domestic traffic represented about 99.4% of the year-over-year loss, leaving international volumes nearly flat.
The network includes GAP’s 12 airports in Mexico and its Jamaican operations in Kingston and Montego Bay. Traffic at the Mexican airports fell 7.6% in October. Mexicali had the sharpest decline among GAP’s 14 airports, down 27.4%; Puerto Vallarta was down 19.8%. Tijuana traffic fell 14.4%, Los Cabos declined 4.6% and Guadalajara was down 1.3%. In Jamaica, traffic rose 3.7% at Kingston and fell 0.9% at Montego Bay.
The load factor, or the share of available seats filled, increased to 81% from 80.7% in October 2025, despite the reduction in capacity.
GAP did not give a specific reason for October’s decline. Its September release reported a 7.3% year-over-year traffic fall and attributed that month’s decrease mainly to lower airline seat capacity; it also said Hurricane Polo partly affected operations at Puerto Vallarta and Los Cabos late in September. The company did not name those factors as causes for October.
For January through October, the network handled 50,324.0 thousand passengers, down 4.5% from 52,680.7 thousand in the same period in 2025. Across its 14 airports, GAP handled 15.44 million passengers in the third quarter, down 1.4% year over year, while revenue rose 21.8%, the company reported. EconoTimes previously covered the third-quarter results.
