La Linda Airport

Economic. The airport was a private airstrip built primarily to serve the La Linda fluorspar mine, which was operated by companies like DuPont and later General Chemical. When the mine ceased operations in the mid-1990s, the logistical need for the airstrip vanished, and it was abandoned.

The airport is abandoned and defunct. Satellite imagery shows a clearly defined but unmaintained dirt/gravel runway that is weathered and becoming overgrown. The site is now part of the Maderas del Carmen Flora and Fauna Protection Area, a vast private nature reserve managed by the cement company CEMEX in partnership with conservation organizations. The land is dedicated to ecological preservation and the reintroduction of native species like bighorn sheep and black bears. The former airstrip is now simply a relic within this protected wilderness area.

La Linda Airport was not a public or commercial airport but a private, utilitarian airstrip ('aeródromo'). Its sole purpose was to provide critical logistical support to the extremely remote La Linda fluorspar mine and its associated community in the Sierra del Carmen mountains. Given the rugged terrain and lack of accessible roads, the airstrip was essential for transporting personnel, specialized equipment, medical supplies, and mail. It was a lifeline connecting the isolated mining operation to larger cities and supply hubs.

Effectively zero. There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. Its remote location, the lack of any economic driver (like a new mine), and its current status within a protected ecological reserve make any future aviation-related development extremely unlikely and contrary to the area's conservation mission.