THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Costa Rica

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG from its OAG Analyser network analysis tool.

COSTA RICA DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2012)

1

San José Juan Santamaría International (SJO)

301

3,000

30.7 %

(-8.1) %

2

San José Tobias Bolaños International (SYQ)

119

1,820

18.7 %

5.7 %

3

Pavones Quepos (XQP)

93

984

10.1 %

(-5.0) %

4

Tambor (TMU)

67

692

7.1 %

(-19.6) %

5

Golfito (GLF)

55

667

6.8 %

(-2.8) %

6

Puerto Jimenez (PJM)

53

593

6.1 %

(-35.5) %

7

Drake Bay (DRK)

42

546

5.6 %

21.9 %

8

Tamarindo (TNO)

42

546

5.6 %

(-10.9) %

9

Liberia Daniel Oduber International (LIR)

35

438

4.5 %

(-23.6) %

10

Nosara Beach (NOB)

14

168

1.7 %

(-39.4) %

(Others)

29

304

3.1 %

100.0 %

TOTAL

850

9,758

-

(-11.4) %

HOME AIRPORT: COSTA RICA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2012)

1

San José Juan Santamaría International (SJO)

401

56,855

82.7 %

4.9 %

2

Liberia Daniel Oduber International (LIR)

73

10,936

15.9 %

(-4.1) %

3

Tortuquero (TTQ)

7

784

1.1 %

New Entrant

4

San José Tobias Bolaños International (SYQ)

8

152

0.2 %

14.3 %

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

489

68,727

-

4.5 %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: COSTA RICA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2012)

1

Miami International (MIA)

48

8,037

11.7 %

(-2.0) %

2

Panama City Tocumen International (PTY)

65

7,392

10.8 %

15.3 %

3

Houston George Bush Intercontinental (IAH)

45

7,068

10.3 %

(-2.7) %

4

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL)

21

3,780

5.5 %

(-22.9) %

5

El Salvador International (SAL)

25

3,652

5.3 %

5.0 %

6

Guatemala City La Aurora International (GUA)

26

3,379

4.9 %

(-13.9) %

7

New York Liberty International (EWR)

21

3,297

4.8 %

0.0 %

8

Mexico City Internacional Benito Juarez (MEX)

21

3,155

4.6 %

35.6 %

9

New York John F Kennedy International (JFK)

17

2,569

3.7 %

0.0 %

10

Madrid Barajas (MAD)

7

2,300

3.3 %

0.0 %

(Others)

193

24,098

35.1 %

14.3 %

TOTAL

489

68,727

-

4.5 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…