Querétaro Intercontinental Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Intercontinental de Querétaro, ) is an international airport located in the municipalities of Colón and

El Marqués El Marqués is a municipality in the Mexican state of Querétaro. It receives its name from Juan Antonio de Urrutia y Arana, the Marquis of the Villa del Villar del Águila, who built the aqueduct that supplied water to Querétaro for centuries. ...

Querétaro Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities. Its capi ...

, Mexico. It handles the national and international air traffic of the city of

and can also be used as an alternate airport to

Mexico City International Airport Mexico City International Airport ( es, link=yes, Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM); officially ''Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez'' (Benito Juárez International Airport) is the main international airport serving ...

. It replaced the Ing. Fernando Espinoza Gutiérrez International Airport, which is no longer operational, in 2004. The headquarters of regional airline

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is located here. It's one of the fastest-growing airports in the country, handling 506,140 passengers in 2020, and 817,719 passengers in 2021.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

Ground transportation information

*Taxi: Travellers wishing to take a taxi or van to

(around US$25) and other cities can take the airport taxi. Some travellers have arranged for a ride beforehand with one of the many shuttle services listed on

San Miguel de Allende San Miguel de Allende () is the principal city in the municipality of San Miguel de Allende, located in the far eastern part of Guanajuato, Mexico. A part of the Bajío region, the city lies from Mexico City, 86 km (53 mi) from Quer� ...

and

Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...

tourist websites. The average price is about $30 to 40 per person. *Car rental:

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and

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have rental counters at the airport. *Intercity bus: The cheaper method to travel to other cities is Autobus. Primera Plus used to have a ticket counter at the airport, which has been closed for a while. An airport taxi from the airport to

Centro (central bus station) is about $20. From Centro, travelers can take another bus to any part of Mexico.

Other facilities

Regional Cargo Regionalcargo Holdings, S.A. de C.V., operating as Regional Cargo, was a Mexican cargo airline. Its headquarters are on the grounds of Querétaro International Airport and in Colón, Querétaro, near Santiago de Querétaro. History Regional ...

has its headquarters on the airport property and in Colón. Universidad Nacional Aeronáutica en QuerétaroUniversidad Nacional Aeronáutica en Querétaro
/ref> has a facility on the grounds of the airport. On 31 August 2012, Aeromexico and Delta Air Lines announced that they will be building a maintenance base at Querétaro International airport.

Statistics

Passengers

Busiest routes

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* * 2004 establishments in Mexico Airports established in 2004 Airports in Querétaro Buildings and structures in Querétaro Transportation in Querétaro {{Mexico-airport-stub