Acapulco airport in Guerrero state closed operations on Thursday due to damage caused by Category 1 Hurricane John , and several airlines have reported the cancellation of flights to and from the Guerrero resort.

Volaris announced that 16 flights will be affected and will no longer be operated between Thursday and Friday, originating in Mexico City, Tijuana, Querétaro, Guadalajara, and vice versa.

The low-cost airline said  it will resume its scheduled flights to Acapulco next Saturday , while flights to Zihuatanejo will resume this Friday.

Aeromexico, for its part, confirmed that it has cancelled 18 flights between Wednesday and Thursday, and has therefore activated its customer protection policy.

Viva Aerobus stated that the effects of this natural phenomenon were mainly on flights to and from Puerto Escondido, Huatulco, Villahermosa, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Oaxaca, Tapachula, Zihuatanejo and Acapulco. For this reason, it cancelled two flights from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo and vice versa for today.

According to the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) , the Acapulco International Airport suspended arrival and departure flight operations starting at 8:40 a.m. this Thursday, due to the weather conditions caused by the effects of Hurricane John. This situation will continue until conditions improve.

He explained that the area surrounding the accesses to this terminal is affected by flooding and debris that interrupt the flow of passengers seeking to arrive or leave this area, so users are urged to remain attentive to official information from the airlines.

The National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported that “John” remains a Category 1 hurricane off the coast of Michoacán. At 3:00 p.m. Central Mexico time, it was located approximately 75 kilometers (km) southwest of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, and 230 km southeast of Manzanillo, Colima.

It maintains maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour (km/h), gusts of 150 km/h and is moving northwest at 4 km/h.

In addition, he said that due to its wide circulation, it will generate rain in regions of Colima, Michoacán and Guerrero; torrential rain in Oaxaca ; intense rain in Jalisco, in addition to reinforcing the probability of strong to intense rain in the center, east and southeast of the Mexican Republic.

It will also generate wind gusts of 100 to 120 km/h, waves of two to four meters high and conditions for the formation of waterspouts on the coasts of Colima, Guerrero and Michoacán, as well as wind gusts of 80 to 100 km/h and waves of two to four meters high on the coasts of Jalisco and Oaxaca.

The SMN of the National Water Commission (Conagua) , in coordination with the United States National Hurricane Center, maintains a surveillance zone for hurricane effects.

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The port of Lázaro Cárdenas was closed at noon on Wednesday as a safety measure due to the remnants of “John” that are intensifying into a tropical storm off the coast of Guerrero.

The Regional Port Captaincy of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, issued a nautical notice declaring the port closed to large and small vessels.

John hit the coasts of Oaxaca and Guerrero on September 23, making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane , although it weakened over time.

The remnants of John are currently causing heavy to intense rainfall, development of squalls and/or waterspouts, high seas and waves, and ingress of seawater into low-lying areas.

“Boats docked within the port area are advised to reinforce ropes as a precautionary measure against strong wind gusts (8 knots with gusts of 10 knots), and should take extreme precautions, as should the coastal population due to flooding, rising rivers and high waves (7 to 9 feet high),” the notice reads.

The port of Lázaro Cárdenas is the second most important on the Mexican Pacific coast , behind Manzanillo, due to its commercial connection with the Asian market, where there has been an upward trend in the import of containerized goods.

In the period from January to August of this year, the port of Lázaro Cárdenas had operated one million 586 thousand 838 20-foot containers (TEU), in import and export maneuvers, resulting in an increase of 34.9%, compared to the same period in 2023, according to statistics from the General Coordination of Ports and Merchant Marine (CGPMM).

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