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Airports in Peru Will Increase Capacity to Handle More Flight Operations

In a meeting between the Secretaries of the Peruvian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, it was agreed that the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, and others in Perú, will increase their capacity and have more flight frequencies.

This was announced by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism in a tweet this Tuesday.

However, it has not been detailed how it is expected to enable cruise tourism or the new capacity of the airports. According to LaRepublica, between January and September, 221,746 foreign tourists arrived in Peru for leisure purposes.

Only in September, a total of 50,612 international tourists arrived in the country, representing the highest number recorded since the borders closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic began. While the national travelers who traveled in the territory, both by air and land, in the mentioned period, were 34.6 million.

Meanwhile, the Corporación Peruana de Aeropuertos y Aviación Comercial (CORPAC) assured that in the first nine months of 2021, the general movement of passengers amounted to 12.7 million, a 33.6% increase compared to the same period of the previous year. In September, it totaled 2,041,083 passengers, an additional flow of 1.7 million people. 84.3% of the total corresponded to domestic flights and 15.7% by international flights.

Consult our source for more details: https://www.aviacionline.com/2021/11/airports-in-peru-will-increase-capacity-to-handle-more-flight-operations/

Airports in Peru Will Increase Capacity to Handle More Flight Operations

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