Acapulco Airport (ACA): terminals, flights

Aeropuerto Internacional General Juan N. Álvarez (IATA: ACA, ICAO: MMAA) is a network point for Acapulco, Mexico. with the airlines, frequencies and lowest peso (MXN) fares listed below.

Airport facts

ACA carries 0 routes and 0 airlines in our catalogue, totalling 0 weekly departures. Aeropuerto Internacional General Juan N. Álvarez (ICAO MMAA) serves Acapulco, Mexico, in the America/Mexico_City zone (UTC−6 in July). Its coordinates (16.7571, -99.754) are the basis of every distance on this site.

• IATA: ACA
• ICAO: MMAA
• City: Acapulco
• Country: Mexico
• Time zone: America/Mexico_City
• Coordinates: 16.7571, -99.754
• Airlines at the airport: 0

Coordinates, and why we publish them. 16.7571, -99.754 is the position from which every great-circle distance on this site is computed, including the ones that set the EU261 compensation band. It is not the distance the aircraft flies — that follows airways and diversions — but the geodesic measure the regulations use. Publishing it lets anyone recompute the figures on these pages.

Base of Aeromexico, Volaris. An airline basing here means aircraft and crews overnighting at the airport: more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto, and more early departures. The flip side is that at an airport dominated by one carrier the competitive pressure on fares is weaker than where several compete.

Connection tips

ACA concentrates 0 catalogued weekly departures across 0 airlines, in the America/Mexico_City zone. That density is what decides how much slack to leave on a connection: the more of its own services the airline runs here, the more same-day rebooking options exist.

Aeropuerto Internacional General Juan N. Álvarez runs on the America/Mexico_City time zone; factor the offset from your origin city when planning connections and transfers. Book 4–8 weeks ahead for the busiest routes to/from Acapulco; fares climb in December, Holy Week and summer. Each route guide above shows month-by-month seasonality and the lowest peso fare. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

The cheap connection that loses the checked bag. Two separate tickets are not one itinerary: there is no interline agreement, the bag is not checked through to the final destination, and if the first flight lands late the second airline owes you nothing — it sold a different flight. The apparent saving evaporates the moment you buy a same-day replacement. On a single ticket, rebooking and the bag transfer are the carrier’s problem, not yours.

Domestic and international at the same airport is not the same as on the same ticket. Linking a Mexican domestic flight to an international one at ACA is only protected when both sit on the same booking reference. Bought separately — very common when the domestic leg is bought from a low-cost carrier — you must reclaim the bag, re-check it and clear security again, and a delay on the first flight obliges nobody to rebook you on the second.

Other airports in Mexico

12 further Mexico airports appear in our catalogue besides ACA, with 111 routes between them. The best-connected is Ciudad de México (MEX) with 44 routes, and the nearest sits ~307 km great-circle from ACA. The 12 distances in this section are measured from each airport’s own coordinates.

Other airports in the same country in our catalogue, with the number of catalogued routes — useful if you need an alternative gateway:

Great-circle distance is not the transfer. The figures in the table are geodesic, computed from each airport’s coordinates; the real journey depends on whether road, rail or a domestic flight exists, and on what they cost. An airport 300 km away can be more accessible than one at 120 km if the first has a direct motorway and the second does not. Use them to rule out, not to plan.

FAQ

The 6 questions on this record are answered from catalogue figures for ACA: routes and weekly frequencies, minimum fares observed by the collector, checked-baggage allowances and the rights regime that applies on each leg. No answer adds data that is not in those sources.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for Acapulco airport? The IATA code is ACA and the ICAO code is MMAA. Aeropuerto Internacional General Juan N. Álvarez serves Acapulco, Mexico.

Which airlines operate at ACA? See the route table for ACA on this page.

How many routes are there from Acapulco (ACA)? Our catalogue lists 0 departing routes at ACA — see the tables above.

What time zone is ACA in? ACA operates in the America/Mexico_City time zone.

How many weekly departures does ACA have in this catalogue? Across the catalogued routes touching ACA we count 0 weekly departures over 0 airlines and 0 routes. That is the coverage relevant to Mexican travellers, not the airport’s full directory.

Which airlines are based at ACA? Aeromexico, Volaris run ACA as a base. An airline based here keeps aircraft and crews overnight, so it has more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto the same day.

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Published by FlightsMX Editorial Team. Last verified: May 2026.