The condition of the airstrips can be checked when you make reservations. However, parking your plane near your room is hard to beat for many reasons. Today, you could easily pay 4 or 5 times that, although there are still some bargains for the looking. So it seems we have gone full circle. Instead of a few planes lifting off in the calm air at the rear of the resort, we have quad runners buzzing the beach.
Fuel prices are more than in the States.
Daily parking fees at the large airports and five dollar a head departure tax add to the cost and paperwork. But progress does invoke regulation and fees for enforcement due to more people, more and better facilities, safer and quieter airports with more services, etc. While there are many forces at work in the Baja as at our home bases, we as pilots and aircraft owners must organize and work to keep airports viable. There have been many crises before for general aviation, but governments have been responsive to group action. Mexico is no different.