One of the more notable effects of the pandemic on private aviation has been a surge in traffic to vacation destinations due to diminished commercial schedules and a desire to fly safely. Perhaps no location has demonstrated this as readily as PrimeSky, the lone FBO at Mexico’s San Jose Del Cabo International Airport (MMSD). Owned and operated by Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which manages 12 airports in the country as well as two in Jamaica, the facility saw an astounding 71 percent increase in operations between its pre-Covid 2019 and 2021 numbers. According to Patricia Silva Lugo, the company’s head of business development, it is on track to exceed last year’s totals. “Our average number is 19,000 operations per year after Covid,” she told AIN.
The company has managed MMSD and operated the FBO there on a 50-year lease that started in 1998. In 2009 it moved the FBO into a larger 1,400-sq-m (15,000-sq-ft) building that it renovated into an upscale private terminal to form the first of what will eventually be a chain of PrimeSky FBOs at other airports. The building has an airy, double-height lobby with floor-to-ceiling windows that allow abundant natural light. It offers passenger seating areas, a pilot lounge, a 10-seat A/V-equipped conference room, a bar, and car rental through multiple providers. Catering is provided by an authorized third-party vendor located at the airport, and onsite customs and immigration clearance is available at the terminal during the FBO’s normal hours of operation from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. every day, with after-hours service on request.
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