Air and SeaGetting to  Loreto

Loreto’s international airport terminal has recently been replaced with a new, modern structure capable of handling volumes of arrivals and departures much greater than we are currently experiencing.

In late summer of 2012, we have four Alaska Airlines flights weekly to and from Los Angeles’ LAX.   In addition, a regional carrier, Aereocalafia, flying Cessna’s 12-passenger Caravan turboprop, provides scheduled service several times a week to Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, and across the Sea of Cortez to several locations on the mainland.   Another regional carrier, ASG, also offers some links to the mainland, also using the Caravan.

To supplement this admittedly limited set of options, Aereocalafia has just bought and started service with a 30-seat Embraer twin turboprop, initially to Culiacan near Mexico City, and with plans to connect to San Jose del Cabo and northward to Tijuana in the near future.

The state and federal governments are keen on supporting development of Loreto, and are discussing ways to sponsor or assist these or other airlines in providing more options, to try to make Loreto as accessible by air as it was in the mid to late 2000’s.  We understand that Canadia carrier West Jet is considering some direct flights to Loreto from Calgary or Kelowna.   Mexican mega-developer Homex, beginning construction on a new phase of Loreto Bay planned for more than 800 units, may also imitate its forebears and arrange charter flights to Loreto from western Canada and the United States.

 

Loreto Bay and the rest of the eastern coast of the Baja Peninsula, from Mulege south to Los Cabos, is a boater’s paradise, with literally hundreds of naturally protected coves and other places to anchor and enjoy the isolation and peace that can be found there – most of it looking just like it did when Spanish explorers from the mainland first set foot on the peninsula in the mid 1600’s.     For movement of vehicles there is a daily ferry run from Santa Rosalia northeast to a terminus at Topolobampo, near Guaymas and the Sonoran city of Hermosillo.

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