Cozumel International Airport

Cozumel International Airport is the primary gateway to Isla Cozumel, Mexico's largest inhabited island and one of the most-visited cruise-ship destinations in the Western Hemisphere. CZM handles 35 scheduled routes to 25 nonstop destinations operated by 17 airlines — a notably high carrier count for a small-island airport that reflects the island's exceptional international flight demand from U.S., Canadian, and Mexican markets driven by scuba-diving tourism on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. The airport operates a single 8,858 ft (2,700 m) lighted asphalt runway 12/30 at 15 ft (5 m) elevation on the western shore of the island. Owned by Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR), the operator of nine southeastern Mexican airports including Cancún (CUN) and Mérida (MID), CZM's traffic is strongly seasonal and complementary to its mainland sibling Cancún — international cruisers arriving at Cozumel's piers typically fly into CUN before ferry-transferring, while direct CZM service supports dedicated-destination leisure and dive travelers. In addition, CZM is a designated alternate for CUN when Cancún is weather-disrupted. Internationally significant as the dive-tourism gateway to Palancar, Columbia, and Santa Rosa reef systems — all dive sites of global reputation within the Cozumel Reefs National Park — and as the shortest international air-access to the southern Yucatán coast. Scheduled operators include United, American, Delta, JetBlue, Sun Country, Alaska Airlines, Southwest, WestJet, Sunwing, Air Canada Rouge, Frontier, Aeroméxico, and Volaris. The Mexican Navy operates a small aviation detachment alongside civil operations, and CZM plays a supporting role in Caribbean hurricane evacuation logistics.