In your publication The Airline Industry Guide 2004/5 there is an omission regarding airports and their size. The Top 10 airports 2003 passenger ranking for Latin America does not show Cancun International airport. Last year Cancun reported to ACI a total of 9,150,000 passengers, making it the second largest airport in Mexico. Salvador Suarez, strategic planning manager ASUR, Mexico

EDITOR'SNOTE: In fact both Cancun and Guadalajara were omitted due to an apparent error in the regional coding. The table below shows how the ranking should have looked.

Top 10 airports 2003 - passenger rank Latin America

Rank

City

Airport

Code

Passengers thousand

1

Mexico City

Benito Juarez

MEX

21,697

2

São Paolo

Guarulhos Int'l

GRU

12,527

3

São Paolo

Congonhas

CGH

12,004

4

San Jose

Int'l

SJC

10,678

5

San Juan

Luis Marin

SJU

9,714

6

Cancun

Int'l

CUN

9,150

7

Brasilia

Int de Brasilia

BSB

7,452

8

Santiago

Arturo M Benitez

SCL

5,745

9

Guadalajara

Miguel Hildago

GDL

5,710

10

Caracas

Simon Bolivar

CCS

5,132

 

Source: Airline Business