Mexico City International Airport

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Mexico City International Airport
IATA: MEX - ICAO: MMMX
Summary
Airport type public
Operator Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México
Serves Mexico City
Elevation AMSL 7,342 ft (2,238 m)
Coordinates 19°26′11″N, 99°04′20″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05R/23L 12,795 3,900 Paved
05L/23R 12,966 3,952 Paved

The Mexico City International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México) sometimes called Benito Juárez International Airport (IATA: MEX, ICAO: MMMX) serves Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. Although it has no official name, it is colloquially named after the 19th century statesman Benito Juárez and is Mexico's main international and domestic gateway. This airport offers direct flights to more than 300 destinations worldwide.

Juárez International is Mexico's and Latin America's busiest airport, and is one of the 30 most important airports worldwide in terms of passengers, operations, and cargo. The airport, comprise a wide variety of options for passengers, as three hotels inside Terminal 1 (Hilton, Camino Real Hotel, and JR Inn), as another more expected in Terminal 2.

Plans to build a second, auxiliary airport in either Texcoco (State of Mexico) or Tizayuca (Hidalgo) were floated by the government in 2001–02, but these were later shelved due to resistance from local farmers dissatisfied with the price offered for their land. Because of this, the AICM (Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México) is undergoing major construction work, including new concourses in the Terminal 1 and 1-E, and a new terminal, the Terminal 2 (T2), this to handle up to 16 million passengers more per year, up from 32 million currently. With the opening of T2 it will be the first Latin American airport to be capable of handling the Airbus A380.

Expansion of Terminal 1 has already been achieved, incluiding a brand new International Terminal (F), new aisles to increase the flow of passengers, the division of arrivals and departures on different levels, a new tunnel that connects the H concourse to the F check-in areas (J) with new Duty Free shopping areas, the construction of a new level on the Domestic side of the building, and the new hall on the landside of the Domestic check-in areas, the expansion of internal hall B, as 15 more conveyors for baggage claiming on halls E3, E4, and C2. Also the remodeling on the outer image from both, airside and landside parts of the terminals, and interiors.

The airport will be able to compete with world's major airports, as to offer any service available at an airport. The construction of Terminal 2, means the introduction of a new kind of service in the country, since it will be, together with Monterrey's Terminal A, Mexico's most modern air facility, as the introduction of inter-terminal transportation in Mexico City. After Terminal 2 is fully operative, airplanes landing on the right runways will use the right terminal, and viceversa, reducing by almost 10 minutes, the time per airplane from its landing to the parking at the contact position.

On November 28, 2004, The Arizona Republic, a right-wing U.S. newspaper, published an article saying that it was remarkable that, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Benito Juárez International Airport kept its plane spotting area open to the public, whereas a large number of airports worldwide had decided to close theirs. The Republic estimated that about 300 viewers and 100 model airplane and food sellers are attracted to the area every day. The airport's director told the newspaper that they had decided to leave the area open because it offered a free alternative for low-income families to spend the day.

Contents

[edit] Terminals and Airlines

[edit] Terminal 1

[edit] Domestic Hall

  • Hall A
    • Aeroméxico (Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz, León, Los Cabos, Matamoros, Mazatlán, Mérida, Monterrey, Puerto Vallarta, Reynosa, Tijuana, Torreón, Villahermosa)
      • Aerolitoral (Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Obregón, Durango, La Paz, Los Mochis, Oaxaca, Torreón, Veracruz) Aeroméxico and Aerolitoral will move oparations to Terminal 2 when it is ignagurated, due to the fact that Aeroméxico Hangars are in front of T2, reducing some time between terminal and hangars.
  • Hall B
    • Aero California (Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Colima, Culiacán, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, La Paz, Los Mochis, Mazatlán, Mérida, Monterrey, Tampico, Tepic, Tijuana, Torreón, Veracruz)
    • Mexicana (Acapulco, Cancún, Colima, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Los Cabos, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexicali, Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos, Monterrey, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Tampico, Veracruz, Villahermosa, Zacatecas)
      • Click Mexicana (Cancún, Chetumal, Ciudad del Carmen, Cozumel, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Guadalajara, Mérida, Nuevo Laredo, Puerto Escondido, Saltillo, San Luis Potosí, Torreón, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Villahermosa)
  • Hall C
    • Aviacsa (Acapulco, Cancún, Chetumal, Culiacán, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, León, Mérida, Mexicali, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Tampico, Tapachula, Tepic, Tijuana, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz, Villahermosa)
  • Hall D1
    • Aeromar (Campeche, Ciudad Victoria, Colima, Guadalajara, Lázaro Cárdenas, Manzanillo, Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos, Monterrey, Morelia, Poza Rica, Puebla, Queretaro, Reynosa, San Luis Potosí, Tepic, Xalapa, Zacatecas)
    • Líneas Aéreas Azteca (Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana, Zacatecas)
  • Hall D2
    • Magnicharters (Cancún, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Los Cabos, Manzanillo, Mérida, Puerto Vallarta)
    • Nova Air (Acapulco, Cancún, Mérida, Puerto Vallarta, Toluca, Veracruz)

[edit] International Hall

International Hall
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International Hall
Popular plane spotting area, open to the public, within a few meters of taxiway. In the right side a Fokker F100 tail of Click Mexicana
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Popular plane spotting area, open to the public, within a few meters of taxiway. In the right side a Fokker F100 tail of Click Mexicana
  • Hall F2
    • Air Canada (Montréal, Toronto-Pearson)
    • Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
    • Mexicana (Baltimore/Washington, Bogotá, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Caracas, Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Fresno, Guatemala City, Havana, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Montréal, New York-JFK, Oakland, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose (CA), San José (CR), San Salvador, Sacramento, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)
    • United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Denver [seasonal, starts Dec. 14, 2006], Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington-Dulles)

[edit] Terminal 2

Although originally T2 was planned to be inagurated on November 30th, 2006, delays have caused Terminal 2 to still be under construction. When opened, it will house the international and domestic destinations of SkyTeam member airlines flying into Mexico City, including Aeroméxico's destinations. T2 will comprise two concourses, A for domestic operations, and B for international flights, meaning that Hall F1 and Concourse H (Gates H29-H36A) in Terminal 1, will be free for other airlines to operate.

The following airlines will operate from terminal 2:

Domestic Concourse A:

  • Aeroméxico (Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz, León, Los Cabos, Matamoros, Mazatlán, Mérida, Monterrey, Puerto Vallarta, Reynosa, Tijuana, Torreón, Villahermosa)
    • Aerolitoral (Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Obregón, Durango, La Paz, Los Mochis, Oaxaca, Torreón, Veracruz)

International Concourse B:

[edit] Metro and Bus Service

The airport is served by the Terminal Aérea Metro station, located just outside the national terminal; it also has a Bus Terminal, which is served by various bus lines [1] with routes to Cuernavaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Toluca, Pachuca, and Córdoba. Whilst the airport always had a bus area, the terminal building itself was created in 2003, to accommodate the many passengers that utilise bus service.

[edit] External links

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