General Mariano Escobedo International Airport
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| General Mariano Escobedo International Airport |
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| IATA: MTY - ICAO: MMMY | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | public | ||
| Operator | Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte (OMA) | ||
| Serves | Monterrey | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1280 ft (390 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 11/29 | 9,843 | 3,000 | Concrete |
| 16/36 | 5,909 | 1,801 | Asphalt |
General Mariano Escobedo International Airport (IATA: MTY, ICAO: MMMY) is an international airport located in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico. Together with Del Norte International Airport, General Mariano Escobedo International Airport handles domestic and international operations for the city of Monterrey and its metropolitan area.
The airport is considered one of the most modern airports in North America serving up to 5 million passengers per year. Eighty percent of passenger traffic is domestic, primarily from the cities of Mexico City, Guadalajara, Chihuahua, and Tijuana, and twenty percent of passenger traffic is international, primarily from the United States cities of Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles. There are almost 300 daily flights to more than 35 destinations in Mexico, North America, and Europe.
The airport serves as a hub for Aviacsa, Aeroméxico and Viva Aerobus. Airport terminals were renovated and expanded on 2003.
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[edit] Terminal Configurations
- Terminal A, considered as the most modern air facility in the country (before the construction of Mexico City's Terminal 2), consists on a building comprising check-in facilities, baggage claiming, shopping areas, restaurants, customs, airport and airline offices, as many other services, while the satellite building connected via underground tunnels comprises all the VIP and waiting lounges, migration among other services as obviously the boarding gates. The Satellite building, is divided into two concourses, North Concourse for domestic flights (Gates A1-A15), while South Concourse comprises all the international flights that operate into the airport (Gates B3-B8).
- Terminal B, used by Aeroméxico's feeder Aerolitoral, is a regional terminal that is also connected by an underground tunnel to the Satellite Building of Terminal A, and comprises a waiting lounge and boarding gates, as some other services.
- Terminal C, recently inaugurated on November 30, 2006 by the Governor of Nuevo León, José Natividad González Parás, houses some operations from low cost carriers serving the airport, Viva Aerobus was the first airline to operate, but many others will follow. This terminal works completely independent to Terminal A, opposite to Terminal B functionality.
[edit] Terminals, Airlines and Destinations
[edit] Terminal A
- North Concourse
- Aero California (Culiacán, Hermosillo, La Paz, Mexico City, Tijuana)
- Aeromar (Mexico City, Puebla, Querétaro)
- Aeroméxico (Mexico City)
- ALMA de Mexico (Puebla, Querétaro)
- Aviacsa (Acapulco, Cancún, Ciudad Juarez, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, León, Mérida, Mexico City, Morelia, Puerto Vallarta, Tampico, Tijuana, Villahermosa)
- Interjet (Guadalajara, Toluca)
- Líneas Aéreas Azteca (Chihuahua, Hermosillo, Mexicali, Mexico City, Tijuana)
- Magnicharters (Acapulco, Cancún, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Manzanillo, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, San José del Cabo)
- Mexicana (León, Mexico City)
- Click Mexicana (Mérida, Veracruz)
- Volaris (Guadalajara, Toluca)
- South Concourse
- Aeroméxico (Las Vegas, Madrid)
- Aerolitoral (Los Angeles, San Antonio)
- American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth)
- American Eagle (Dallas/Fort Worth)
- Aviacsa (Houston-Intercontinental, Las Vegas, Los Angeles)
- Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
- Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
- Delta Air Lines
- Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta)
- Magnicharters (Varadero) (seasonal charter)
- Mexicana (Chicago-O'Hare, Los Angeles)
- Aeroméxico (Las Vegas, Madrid)
[edit] Terminal B
- Aeroméxico
- Aerolitoral (Acapulco, Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Culiacán, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, La Paz, León, Los Mochis, Mérida, Piedras Negras, San Luis Potosí, Tampico, Tijuana, Toluca, Torreón, Veracruz, Villahermosa)
[edit] Terminal C
- Viva Aerobus (Acapulco, Aguascalientes [starts June 1, 2007], Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Cuernavaca, Culiacán, Hermosillo, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo [starts May 11, 2007], León, Mazatlán [starts June 1, 2007], Mérida [starts May 11, 2007], Mexicali [starts June 1, 2007], Morelia [starts May 11, 2007], Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tampico, Tijuana, Torreón [starts June 1, 2007], Veracruz, Villahermosa [starts May 11, 2007])
