Tijuana International Airport

Tijuana International Airport

*Aeropuerto Internacional General Abelardo L. Rodríguez*
Tijuana International Airport; Aeropuerto Internacional General Abelardo L. Rodríguez
	IATA: TIJ; ICAO: MMTJ;
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Operator	Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico
Serves	San Diego–Tijuana
Location	Tijuana, Baja California; (CBX terminal in Otay Mesa, San Diego, California)
Opened	May 1, 1951; 73 years ago
Hub for	Volaris
Focus city for	Viva
Time zone	PST (UTC-08:00)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-07:00)
Elevation AMSL	149 m / 489 ft
Coordinates	32°32′27″N 116°58′12″W / 32.54083°N 116.97000°W
Website	www.aeropuertosgap.com.mx/en/tijuana-3.html
Runways
Statistics (2024)
Total passengers
Total passengers	12,545,800
Ranking in Mexico	5th
	Source: Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico

Tijuana International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de Tijuana); officially Aeropuerto Internacional General Abelardo L. Rodríguez (General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport) (IATA: TIJ, ICAO: MMTJ), is an international airport located 5 km (3.1 mi) northeast of downtown Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

It serves Tijuana and the surrounding San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area, home to a population of five million people.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroméxico	Mexico City Seasonal: Guadalajara
American Eagle	Phoenix–Sky Harbor^[2]
Hainan Airlines	Beijing–Capital^[3]
Magnicharters	Seasonal: Guadalajara
Mexicana de Aviación	Mexico City–AIFA^[4]
Viva	Cancún, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo¹ (begins May 22, 2025),^[5] La Paz (begins May 22, 2025),^[5] León/Del Bajío, Mazatlán, Mérida²,^[6] Mexico City, Mexico City–AIFA, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puebla, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro² (begins May 23, 2025),^[5] San José del Cabo, Tulum,⁴ Veracruz (begins May 22, 2025)^[5]
Volaris	Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Colima, Culiacán, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz, León/Del Bajío, Loreto, Los Mochis, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexico City, Mexico City–AIFA, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puebla, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, San José del Cabo, San Luis Potosí, Tapachula, Tepic, Toluca/Mexico City, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Uruapan, Veracruz, Villahermosa, Zacatecas

Notes:
^1 Viva flight to Hermosillo makes a stopover in San José del Cabo but it will be non-stop from May 2025.
^2 Viva flight to Mérida makes a stopover in Monterrey.
^3 Viva flight to Querétaro makes a stopover in San José del Cabo but it will be non-stop from May 2025.
^4 Viva flight to Tulum makes a stopover in Mexico City–AIFA.

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Aeronaves TSM	Hermosillo, Querétaro
AeroUnion	Mexico City–AIFA^[7]
China Southern Cargo	Mexico City–AIFA, Shanghai–Pudong
Estafeta	Culiacán, Hermosillo
IFL Group Operated for FedEx Feeder	San Diego

Destinations map

Tijuana

Mexico City

Mexico City/AIFA

Monterrey

Mérida

León/Del Bajío

Guadalajara

Mazatlán

Cancún

Puerto Vallarta

Loreto

Torreón/Gómez Palacio

Oaxaca

Los Mochis

Tapachula

Tepic

Ciudad Juárez

La Paz

Tuxtla Gutiérrez

Puebla

Querétaro

San Luis Potosí

San José del Cabo

Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo

Aguascalientes

Zacatecas

Uruapan

Hermosillo

Acapulco

Morelia

Colima

Culiacán

Veracruz

Huatulco

Chihuahua

Ciudad Obregón

Durango

Toluca

Puerto Peñasco

Puerto Escondido

Villahermosa

Tulum

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Domestic destinations from Tijuana International Airport
Red = Year-round destination
Blue = Future destination
Green = Seasonal destination

Tijuana

Phoenix

Las Vegas

Beijing–Capital

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International destinations from Tijuana International Airport
Red = Year-round destination
Blue = Future destination
Green = Seasonal destination

References

↑ "GAP Traffic Report 2024" (PDF). Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico. January 2025. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
↑ "American Airlines to offer two new destinations from Sky Harbor beginning in February". 12News. July 2023. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
↑ "Aeropuerto de Tijuana reactivará ruta Tijuana – Beijing". La Jornada (in Mexican Spanish). 1 July 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
↑ Díaz Canseco, Ricardo (22 December 2023). "Mexicana de Aviación inició venta de boletos: costos y rutas de la nueva aerolínea". Infobae (in Spanish). Infobae. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 "Viva Aerobus launches 4 new routes from Tijuana". EnElAire (in Spanish). August 2024. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
↑ "Viva Aerobus adds 2 new routes from Mérida". Mexico News Daily. June 26, 2024. Retrieved July 6, 2024.
↑ Valadez, Roberto (September 1, 2022). "Con AeroUnion, inicia operación de terminal de carga en aeropuerto de Santa Lucía". Milenio (in Spanish). Grupo Milenio. Retrieved December 21, 2022.

[gapstats-1] "GAP Traffic Report 2024" (PDF). Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico. January 2025. Retrieved January 28, 2025.

[American-2] "American Airlines to offer two new destinations from Sky Harbor beginning in February". 12News. July 2023. Retrieved July 26, 2023.

[Hainan-TIJ-3] "Aeropuerto de Tijuana reactivará ruta Tijuana – Beijing". La Jornada (in Mexican Spanish). 1 July 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.

[infobae-mexicana-2023-4] Díaz Canseco, Ricardo (22 December 2023). "Mexicana de Aviación inició venta de boletos: costos y rutas de la nueva aerolínea". Infobae (in Spanish). Infobae. Retrieved 24 December 2023.

[VIVTIJ-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 "Viva Aerobus launches 4 new routes from Tijuana". EnElAire (in Spanish). August 2024. Retrieved August 15, 2024.

[6] "Viva Aerobus adds 2 new routes from Mérida". Mexico News Daily. June 26, 2024. Retrieved July 6, 2024.

[7] Valadez, Roberto (September 1, 2022). "Con AeroUnion, inicia operación de terminal de carga en aeropuerto de Santa Lucía". Milenio (in Spanish). Grupo Milenio. Retrieved December 21, 2022.

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