📋 Tender Overview
By the end of the year, more than 5 million people would travel through said air terminal, which would record more than 36 thousand takeoffs and landings.The Peruvian Corporation of Airports and Commercial Aviation (Corpac), an entity attached to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC), reported that, if the growth rate registered until August of this year is maintained, the Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco will have achieved a historical record in the number of passengers transported and air operations.
In fact, between January and August of this year, a total of 3,212,091 passengers have traveled through said air terminal, both on arrival and departure flights; 19.6% more than in the same period of 2024, which added 2 million 686 thousand 313 travelers in that same period.
If this growth is maintained in the remainder of 2025, by the end of the year more than 5 million passengers will have been transported through the Cusco Airport; 28.4% more than in 2019, when 3.9 million travelers were registered.
It should be noted that in 2024 the number of passengers who arrived or left the Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport during 2019 had already been exceeded, the reference year to evaluate the recovery of the airline sector.
These results confirm the consolidation of the Cusco International Airport as the second most important in Peru in terms of the number of passengers transported and a factor in regional development and promotion of tourism, commerce and the territorial integration of Cusco with the entire world.
According to Corpac statistics, between January and August of this year, a total of 23,442 operations (takeoffs and landings) were recorded, 18.1% more than in the same period of 2024, which totaled 19,851 operations in that same period.
If this level of growth is maintained for the remainder of the year, the Cusco airport will have exceeded 36,762 air operations, 2.7% more than in 2019, the pre-pandemic year, when there were 35,774 operations.
