Thursday, April 16, 2026

Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in Puerto Rico breaks passenger records in 2025

International travel showed an upturn

Puerto Rico.- A total of 13.6 million passengers transited through Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) in 2025, an increase of 3% compared to 2024, when 13.2 million passengers arrived, marking a new record in the history of the airport.

This transcends data from Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR), the parent company of Aerostar, the private operator of the airport, through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP). In a previous interview with this newspaper, Nelman Nevárez, Aerostar's operations director, had anticipated that the expectation was to reach between 13.6 and 13.7 million passengers.
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Out of this total, 11.9 million correspond to domestic trips, an increase of 1.8% compared to the 11.7 million in 2024. While 1.7 million were in international travel, a significant increase of 12%, compared to the 1.5 million of the previous year. In the case of December, the airport registered 1.34 million passengers, an increase of 4.6% compared to 2024, when 1.28 million passed through in the same month.

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