✈️ Busy Airports

You probably won't guess correctly which airport is now Latin America's busiest.

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Latinometrics
July 01, 2025 • Reading Time: 2 minutes

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In Latin America, we increasingly catch flights, not feelings. 746M passengers flew Latin America & Caribbean routes last year, an +86M boost since 2019.

More of us caught flights through Bogota's El Dorado airport than any other airport in the region—marking a shift from the Brazilian and Mexican dominance of decades past.

No single terminal felt the surge more than Bogotá-El Dorado. The Colombian hub processed 45.4 million travelers, edging past Mexico City (44.9 M) and São Paulo-Guarulhos (43.1 M) to become the region's busiest airport for the first time. Geography helps: Bogotá sits midway between the Americas, so Avianca and LATAM have built spider-web networks that pull in connections to the US and Europe.

Tourism to Colombia has also recovered remarkably, with a 58% increase since pre-pandemic (2019) numbers.

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