Huatulco International Airport (HUX) is only a 15-20 minute drive from the resort areas, making for an easy experience coming and going. The facilities at the diminutive airport are modern and comfortable. The lack of flights to Huatulco from the US and Canada has been a sore point among local business owners, and at this moment there are still very few options to choose from. In August 2010, Huatulco - and Mexican travel in general - suffered a severe blow when Mexicana Airlines after 89 years declard bankruptcy and shuttered operations. The initial idea was to try to keep the domestic carrier MexicanaClick running but this proved impossible to separate out. The three flights a day to and from Mexico City on MexicanaClick are no more. This leaves one flight a day to/from Mexico City on Interjet. Continental flies daily nonstops from Houston to Huatulco from Dec-April. The rest of the year they pretty much only fly on Saturday. Until some other airlines pick up the slack, this makes it extremely difficult to book a flight to Huatulco if coming and going on a Saturday on Continental doesn't work for you. Plenty of international carriers service Mexico City, but you have to make separate arrangements with Interjet for a flight to Huatulco. The flight in to Huatulco leaves at 12:20 pm so it's hard to get an early enough flight from a lot of places to make the connection. And their flight out of Huatulco at 2pm is too late in the afternoon to Mexico City to make another connection through a US hub that night, so you're left spending a night somewhere. To and from Miami works fine, there are flights on AeroMexico and American that get you into Mexico City between 9 and 10 in the morning. And going home there is a 4:40 flight to Miami on American from Mexico City that you'll have time to catch (the Interjet flight from Huatulco gets into Mexico City at 3:10). AeroMexico has about the only thing that works for NY, red eye flights both ways, which leave you pretty healthy layovers coming and going. You can't get the Continental flight to Houston (it leaves at 2:45 pm) but you can get the AeroMexico 5:10 to Houston, which arrives at 7:30. You'll be lucky to get a flight out of Houston that night to anywhere, though. In the long run Huatulco might end up getting better flights than it had, because Mexicana was monopolizing the traffic while offering very poor connections most of the time. But in the short term, travel options are dismal. If you have to make a connection through the anarchy that is Mexico City Airport, make sure to read Tips. Rental cars are available at the airport from Thrifty, Advantage, Hertz, and Europcar. Make a reservation online and the prices can be shockingly cheap, as little as $130/week. The problem is they're not likely to respect the rate, or they will load on so much mandatory insurance that the price goes to $300-400 a week. A better option in Tangolunda is Oaxaca Rent-a-Car, which has set rates with everything included, usually cheaper than the airport rental places. Just as it is at most airports of the world, taxi service from the airport is a racket - the taxi concession that has exclusive rights charges $45. (That's for the whole car. Don't let them try to charge you $45 per person.) Taxi service to the airport, on the other hand, is only around $12 from any cab in town. Once you're in town, taxi service is surprisingly cheap to get you on short trips around town. Anywhere in La Crucecita, and between La Crucecita and Santa Cruz or Chahue, is 20 pesos ($1.60). Between La Crucecita and Tangolunda is 40 pesos. For more extended trips, the prices get a lot more expensive. For those coming or going around Mexico by bus, the very modern bus station is on the north side of La Crucecita on the main road into town. Buses leave here for just about anywhere you can think of in southern Mexico. Though Huatulco is located near the bottom of Mexico, the country curves so much to the east that it's not much longer a drive from Texas than Cabo San Lucas is from California. Part-time residents and intrepid explorers will welcome my detailed information on border crossing and driving here via the Gulf route (Brownsville - Tampico - Veracruz - Acayucan - Salina Cruz - Huatulco). The advantage to this route is that there is no torturous mountain driving, and it has become a very reasonable trip to make. Click on the icon to the left for a downloadable PDF document that will guide you through it.