Puerto Escondido International Airport PXM GPS: 15°52.61’N 97°05.34’W Elevation: 294 feet Telephone: (954) 582-2023, 582-2024 Main Index Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca Gear-up Landing at P.E. Aero Vega Flight Flight to Puerto Escondido Flight to Huatulco Vista World Travel Huatulco International Airport Transportation Weather Visitors' Comments About • Home • Search

The Puerto Escondido International Airport is located just west of Puerto Escondido on Hwy 200, see map. The airport identifier is PXM if you are a commercial airport passenger, MMPS if you are a pilot.

Finding flights to Puerto Escondido and to Huatulco (two hours away by car) can be challenging. Air carriers, schedules and fares change frequently. Fares are often high and include at least one stop in Mexico City. Refer to the transportation page and/or contact Vista World Travel for information.

Aerotucan flies daily between Oaxaca-Huatulco and Oaxaca-Puerto Escondido. US$109 each way (2/10). Contact Vista World Travel for reservations.

As with most Mexican airports, taxis FROM the airport are quite expensive. And if you have someone come to pick you up, they will have to pay 40 pesos to get into the airport and another 40 pesos if they pick you up.

Car Rental: Económica Rent-a-Car, (954) 582-2579, can provide airport pick-up and drop-off.

Takeoff Video   a youtube video of the takeoff by tomzap to photograph the playas.

Check out this interesting photo of a gear-up landing at Puerto Escondido.

Help keep this information current. Email tom@tomzap.com with updates or photos.

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Airport as seen from the west. See more aerial photos. See Flight to Puerto Escondido.

From the Puerto Escondido Visitor's Comments:

Airport History

The airport opened March 1979 and was updated to an International airport in 1985, so says the airport commander, who has the title Ing (engineer) in front of his name. The update included a lengthening of the strip to it´s present 2700 meters (8858') and the installation of an instrument landing system and a control tower.

Some oldtimer told me that the old strip opened in 1970 (he thought) in what is now Rinconada. I was told that flights used to land there directly from Canada but Huatulco changed all that when the powers to be rerouted all international flights to Huatulco.

Jarhead
October 2004

The old Puerto Escondido Airport around 1980   photo from R. Malmed

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