A friend provided me some pictures of the new Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) international airport during the Border Governor's Conference a couple of weeks ago. As you can see, the runway is complete and striped and was used for parking jets during the conference. Governor Bours reportedly landed his plane at the airport for a dedication with Mayor Renteria, and other conference attendees used the airport as parking for their jets.
My source indicates that "the new airport will be available to commercial operations in the first quarter of 2009. Aeromexico Connect [Aerolitoral] will move its current operations at the Municial Airport (PPE) to the new instalations and probably new routes to both Mexico and the US will follow; there are several airlines that are looking at this new market." So commercial airline operations to Hermosillo, Los Angeles and soon Las Vegas will ramp up using the Puerto Peñasco (PPE) airport as I have written in previous posts here and here and will eventually shift to the international airport as demand dictates. Good news for the future growth of Puerto Peñasco.
We have a timeshare at the Mayan Palace and also a plane. We are anxious to be able to land at the new airport. We recently purchased a beach home in Puerto Penasco and will soon be full time. And yes, our friends are jealous. No reason for it though, God has been good to us.
Thanks for the great pictures.
Posted by: Wes and Michelle | October 17, 2007 at 10:39 AM