KINGSTON, Jamaica--The main purpose for Jamaica's participation in the Routes Americas Forum was to attract new flights, air routes and airlines to this Caribbean Island. Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico supports the promotion of Jamaica as destination.
Routes Americas is the main meeting forum of airlines and airports in the American hemisphere, and it served as a platform to lay the grounds for the world meeting that will be held in Milan, Italy, next September, where Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico will promote Jamaica more intensely as a tourist and investment destination.
Grupo Aeroportuario el Pacífico is committed to Jamaica and acknowledges it both as an extraordinary destination given its natural wonders and excellent tourist offering and as an attractive market for foreign investment that promotes the country's sustainability, economic and social development.
Grupo Aeroportuario el Pacífico is a Mexican corporation, developing its activity in the airport sector. GAP operates 12 international airports in Mexico and two in Jamaica, servicing over 330 destinations through 35 airlines.
On October 10, 2018, GAP signed a concession contract with the government of Jamaica in order to operate, modernize and expand the Norman Manley International Airport (“KIN”) located in the city of Kingston.
The airports managed by GAP in Mexico are owned by the Mexican government and have been allocated in a 50-year concession, starting in 1998, as part of a domestic initiative to privatize and improve the quality and security of the country's airport services.
In Jamaica, the government owns Montego Bay Airport and the concession granted for its operation is for a 30-year period, which will conclude on April 2033. The Kingston Airport was granted for a 25-year concession. GAP took control of the operation and administration this past October 2019.
