Mexico City International Airport

"Benito Juárez Airport" redirects here. For the airport in Argentina, see Benito Juárez Airport (Argentina).

"Juárez Airport" redirects here. For the airport in Ciudad Juárez, see Abraham González International Airport.

Mexico City International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México
File:Logo of MEX Airport.svg
Mexico City Airport Terminal 2
IATA: MEX ICAO: MMMX
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México
Operator	Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares
Serves	Mexico City, Mexico
Location	Venustiano Carranza, D.F.
Hub for	Aeromar Aeroméxico Aeroméxico Connect Interjet Magnicharters Volaris AeroUnion (cargo) LATAM Cargo México (cargo)
Focus city for	Air France Cargo (cargo) VivaAerobús
Elevation AMSL	7,316 ft / 2,230 m
Coordinates	19°26′10″N 099°04′19″W
Website	www.aicm.com.mx
Map
MEX Location within Mexico City
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 05R/23L 3,900 12,795 Asphalt 05L/23R 3,952 12,966 Asphalt 13/31 2,300 7,546 Asphalt 5 Auxiliar 759 2,490 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 41,710,254 8.5% Cargo tonnage 483,433.40 8.17% Aircraft movements 448,147 5.01% Economic & social impact (2012) $4.4 billion & 187.9 thousand
Source: DAFIF Statistics: Airport website,

Mexico City International Airport (Template:Lang-es); officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez (Template:Lang-en) (IATA: MEX, ICAO: MMMX) is an international airport that serves Greater Mexico City. It is Mexico's and Latin America's busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements. The airport sustains 35,000 jobs directly and around 15,000 indirectly in the immediate area. The airport is owned by Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México and operated by Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, the government-owned corporation, which also operates 22 other airports throughout Mexico. In recent years Toluca Airport has become an alternate airport.

This hot and high airport is served by 30 domestic and international passenger airlines and 17 cargo carriers. As the main hub for Mexico's largest airline Aeroméxico (with Aeroméxico Connect), the airport has become a SkyTeam hub. It is also a hub for Aeromar, Interjet, Volaris, and a focus city for VivaAerobus. On a typical day, more than 100,000 passengers pass through the airport to and from more than 100 destinations on three continents. In 2016, the airport handled 41,710,254 passengers, a 8.53% increase compared to 2015.

Operating at the limits of its capacity, the airport will be replaced by a new one, announced in September 2014, to be built about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north-northeast of the current airport, east of Ecatepec.

Location

Located at the neighborhood of Peñón de los Baños within Venustiano Carranza, one of the sixteen boroughs into which Mexico's Federal District is divided, the airport is 5 km (3.1 mi) east from Downtown Mexico City and is surrounded by the built-up areas of Gustavo A. Madero to the north and Venustiano Carranza to the west, south and east. As the airport is located on the east side of Mexico City and its runways run southwest-northeast, an airliner's landing approach is usually directly over the conurbation of Mexico City when the wind is from the northeast. Therefore, there is an important overflying problem and noise pollution.

History

Inauguration of Iberia's Mexico City-Madrid route, March 1, 1950

President and Mrs. Kennedy debark Air Force One, June 29, 1962

Origins

The original site, known as Llanos de Balbuena, had been used for aeronautical activities since 1910, when Alberto Braniff became the first to fly an aeroplane in Mexico, and in Latin America. The flight was onboard of a Voisin biplane. On November 30, 1911, President Francisco I. Madero, was the first head of State in the world to fly onboard of a Deperdussin airplane piloted by Geo M. Dyott of Moisant International. In 1915 the airport first opened as Balbuena Military Airport with five runways. Construction of a small civilian airport began in 1928. The first landing was on November 5, 1928, and regular service started in 1929, but was officially inaugurated on May 15, 1931. On July 8, 1943, the Official Gazette of the Federation published a decree that acknowledged Mexico City's Central Airport as an international airport, capable of managing international arrivals and departures of passengers and aircraft. Its first international route was to Los Angeles International Airport operated by Mexicana. Construction of Runway 05D-23I started six years later, as well as new facilities such as a platform, a terminal building, a control tower and offices for the authorities. The runway started its operations in 1951. On November 19, 1952, President Miguel Alemán opened the passenger terminal, which later became Terminal 1.

In 1956 the airport had four runways in service: 05L-23R (2,720m long, 40m wide), 05R-23L (3,000m long, 45m wide), with electric lights for night-time service; 13-31 (2,300m long, 40m wide) which had been built to relieve 14-32, to which residential areas had encroached too closely; and 5 Auxiliar (759m long).

1960s–1990s

On December 2, 1963, Walter C. Buchanan, former director of the Transport and Communications Department (SCT), changed the airport's name "Aeropuerto Central" (Central Airport) to "Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México" (Mexico City International Airport).

In the 1970s, president Luis Echeverría closed the two remaining shorter runways (13/31 and 5 Auxiliar); on the land of 13-31 a social housing complex was built, Unidad Fiviport. leaving the two parallel runways. In 1980, the terminal was expanded to double its capacity, using a single large terminal rather than multiple terminals as in other airports. Ten years later in 1990, the mixed domestic/international gates were separated to increase the terminal's functionality, along with the separation of domestic and international check-in halls.

On November 24, 1978, the "Mexico" Control Tower began its operations; it has been in service since then.

The AICM has continually improved its infrastructure. On August 15, 1979, and after about a year of remodeling works, the terminal building reopened to the public; the airport continued its operations during the renovation, which improved passenger transit with better space distribution in walkways and rooms.

Due to constant growth in demand of both passengers and operations, on January 13, 1994, the Official Gazette of the Federation, published a presidential decree that prohibited general aviation operations in the AICM, which were moved to Toluca International Airport in order to clear air traffic in the capital's airport.

Renovations to the AICM continued and on April 11, 1994, a new International Terminal building was ready and operational. It was built by a private contractor according to a co-investment agreement with Airports and Auxiliary Services. In 2001, in order to further improve service to passengers, construction for Module XI started. This Module permitted eight new contact positions in the Airport Terminal, capable of receiving eight regular airplanes, two wide-body, or four narrow-body aircraft.

2003–2007 expansion

Because of the increasing traffic, president Vicente Fox announced the construction of a new, larger airport on 5,000 ha (12,000 acres) in the municipalities of Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco, but when local violent protests took place in 2002, the new airport was cancelled. Instead, to respond to the growing demand and aiming to position the AICM as one of the greatest in terms of quality, services, security, and operational functionality, on May 30, 2003, the Federal Government announced an update: an extension to the air terminal in order to widen its service capacity from 20 million to 32 million passengers a year. This program was part of the Metropolitan Airport System, promoted by the Federal Administration. The Communications and Transportation Ministry (SCT), Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares (ASA) and AICM performed expansion and remodeling work on Terminal 1, over a surface area of 90,000 square metres (970,000 sq ft); 48,000 of which were new construction and 42,000 of which were remodeled. The renovations include new airline counters, commercial spaces and an elevator for people with disabilities, which improved the flow of passengers with domestic destinations.

Among other works performed in the international area, a long-distance bus terminal was built with connections to Puebla, Cuernavaca, Pachuca, Toluca, Querétaro and Orizaba. The new bus station has access to a food court and the international arrivals and departures area, as well as a pedestrian bridge that connects to "The Peñón de los Baños" neighborhood.

The airport was formally named after the 19th-century president Benito Juárez in 2006.

On November 15, 2007, Terminal 2 was opened, significantly increasing the airport's capacity. All SkyTeam members moved their operations to the new terminal, except Air France and KLM. It was officially inaugurated in March 2008, once the new road accesses and taxiways were finished. Terminal 2 increased the airport's contact positions by 40% and the operational capacity by 15%. The terminal was inaugurated by former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.

Lack of capacity and slot restriction

The airport as seen from an aircraft in 2011.

aerial view of the airport before the construction of Terminal 2.

The airport has suffered from a lack of capacity due to restrictions on expansion, since it is located in a densely populated area. In 2014, Mexican authorities established and declared a maximum capacity of 61 operations per hour with a total of 16 rush hours (7:00 –22:59). Another issue with the airport is the limitation that its two runways provide, since they are used at 97.3% of their maximum capacity, leaving a very short room for new operations into the airport. Only government, military, commercial, and specially authorized aircraft are allowed to land at the airport. Private aircraft must use alternate airports, such as Lic. Adolfo López Mateos International Airport in Toluca, General Mariano Matamoros Airport in Cuernavaca, or Hermanos Serdán International Airport in Puebla.

New airport

Main article: New Mexico City international airport

Architect Fernando Romero and the scale model of the New Mexico City airport.

The construction of a new Mexico City international airport was announced by Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto on September 2, 2014, who said that it would be emblemático, or a national symbol. The new airport will replace the current Mexico City International Airport, which is at capacity. It is to have one large terminal of 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m²) and six runways: two that are each 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi; 15,000 ft) long and four that are each 4 kilometres (2.5 mi; 13,000 ft) long. The architects are Sir Norman Foster and Fernando Romero, son-in-law of billionaire Carlos Slim and architect of the Soumaya Museum.

Construction will take eight years and depending on the source, is estimated to cost 120 or 169 billion Mexican pesos, about 9–13 billion US dollars. It will be built on land already owned by the federal government in the Zona Federal del Lago de Texcoco, between Ecatepec and Atenco in the State of Mexico, about 10 km northeast of the current airport.

The terminal is to be sustainable, aiming for a LEED Platinum certification.

Terminals and facilities

Terminal layout before T2.

Terminal layout after T2 was built.

External facade of Terminal 2.

Terminal 2 - Departures waiting area.

Terminal 2 - Display screens.

Terminal 2 - Hall L3 Check-in counters.

Central corridor at T2.

Terminals

Mexico City International Airport has two passenger terminals. Terminal 1 is separated from Terminal 2 by the runways.

Terminal 1

• Opened in 1958; expanded in 1970, 1989, 1998, 2000 and 2004
• Overall terminal surface: 542,000 m² (5,830,000 sq ft)
• Contact positions: 33
  • Two contact positions equipped for the Airbus A380
• Remote positions: 17 (34 Before New T2 was built)
• Number of jetways: 33
• Number of airside halls: 10
• Number of landside (check-in) halls: 9
• Number of mobile-lounges: 11
• Hotel service:
  • 600 room Camino Real
  • 288 room Courtyard by Marriott
  • 327 room Fiesta Inn (Located across from Terminal 1)
  • 110 room Hilton
• Parking service: 3,100 vehicles (Domestic), 2,400 vehicles (International)
• Space per passenger in T1: 17 m² (180 sq ft)
• Number of baggage claim carousels: 22

Terminal 1 is currently the largest airport terminal in the Americas and the fourth largest in the world.

Terminal 2

• Opened in 2007
• Overall terminal surface: 288,000 m² (3,100,000 sq ft)
• Contact positions: 23
• Remote positions: 18 (Aeromar and Aeroméxico Connect)
• Number of jetways: 23
• Number of airside halls: 2 (Domestic, International)
• Number of landside (check-in) halls: 3 (L1, L2, L3)
• Hotel service:
  • 287 room NH
• Parking service: 3,000 vehicles
• Space per passenger in T2: 22 m² (240 sq ft)
• Number of baggage claim carousels: 15)
• Platform surface: 426,000 m² (4,590,000 sq ft)
• Inter-terminal Aerotrén capacity: 7,800 daily passengers

Terminal 2 was built over a surface area of 242,666.55m² and has modern security systems, in accordance with international standards including a passenger traffic separation systems. The new facility will help AICM increase its capacity to 32 million passengers per year.

Air operations in the new facilities began on November 15, 2007, with flights by Aeromar and Delta Air Lines, and later AeroMéxico, Copa, LAN and Continental Airlines. Terminal 2 was formally inaugurated by former Presidente Felipe Calderón Hinojosa on March 26, 2008.

These projects were done without affecting airplane takeoffs and landings, and will help Mexico City International Airport offer better services, and respond to the growing demand of passengers and operations in the coming years.

Terminal 2 now houses all Aeroméxico flights out of the airport, becoming the airline's main distribution center. Although the terminal was intended to be served by all-SkyTeam member airlines, Air France and KLM decided to remain at Terminal 1.

Other facilities

Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, a government-owned corporation that operates airports in Mexico, has its headquarters on the airport property., Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares. The Aeromar headquarters are located in Hangar 7 in Zone D of the General Aviation Terminal of the airport. Aviacsa had its headquarters in Hangar 1 in Zone C, but ceased operations on May 4, 2011.

Airlines and destinations

The airport connects 52 domestic and 50 international destinations in Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. Aeromexico serves the largest number of cities from any Latin American hub (80), 46 domestic and 34 international. Most prominent foreign airlines are United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Avianca Holdings. Aeroméxico/Aeroméxico Connect operates the most departures from the airport followed by Interjet, Volaris, and Aeromar. Aeroméxico also operates to the most destinations followed by Interjet.

Passenger

Terminal 2 - Aeroméxico and Delta aircraft parked at North Concourse. Aeroméxico is the largest carrier operating at Benito Juárez Airport.

AeroMéxico Boeing 777-200ER on final approach.

KLM Boeing 747 arriving from Schiphol.

British Airways Boeing 747-400 landing from Heathrow Airport.

Lufthansa Boeing 747-400. Lufthansa connects Frankfurt and Munich from MEX.

Iberia Airbus A340-600 taxiing at the airport.

Copa Airlines Boeing 737-800 taking off to Panama City.

American Airlines Boeing 737-800. The airline operates 105 flights per week to 5 destinations in the US.

Aeroméxico Connect Embraer 190 taxiing with T2 in the background. Connect operates the most destinations from the airport (50).

Interjet aircraft parked at the side of T1. Interjet links the airport with 44 destinations within Mexico and other 5 countries.

This table lists passengers flights served with a nonstop or direct flight with no change of aircraft carrying passengers originating in Mexico City according to the airlines' published schedules, unless otherwise noted.

Airlines	Destinations
Aeromar	Acapulco, Cancún, Ciudad Victoria, Colima, Guadalajara, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Ixtepec, Lázaro Cárdenas, Manzanillo, McAllen, Mérida, Morelia, Oaxaca, Piedras Negras, Poza Rica, Puerto Escondido, San Luis Potosí, Tepic, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz, Villahermosa Seasonal: Huatulco
Aeroméxico	Amsterdam, Bogotá, Boston, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza, Calgary, Cancún, Chicago–O'Hare, Chihuahua, Culiacán, Detroit, Guadalajara, Havana, Hermosillo, Las Vegas, Lima, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mazatlán, Medellín–JMC, Mérida, Mexicali, Miami, Monterrey, Montréal–Trudeau, New York–JFK, Orlando, Panama City, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Portland (OR) (begins December 1, 2017), Puerto Vallarta, Quito, San Francisco, San José del Cabo, San José de Costa Rica, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Seattle/Tacoma (begins November 1, 2017), Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Tijuana, Tokyo–Narita, Toronto–Pearson, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Vancouver, Villahermosa, Washington–Dulles Seasonal: Acapulco, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Denver, Houston–Intercontinental, Tapachula
Aeroméxico Connect	Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Austin, Campeche, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Colima (begins September 18, 2017), Culiacán, Dallas/Fort Worth, Durango, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Hermosillo, Houston–Intercontinental, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz, León/El Bajío, Los Mochis, Managua, Manzanillo, Matamoros, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexicali, Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos, Monterrey, Morelia, Nuevo Laredo, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, Reynosa, Saltillo, San Antonio, San José del Cabo, San Luis Potosí, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Santo Domingo, Tampico, Tapachula, Tijuana, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz, Villahermosa, Zacatecas
Air Canada Rouge	Toronto–Pearson, Vancouver Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Alaska Airlines	Los Angeles, San Francisco (both begin August 8, 2017)
Alaska Airlines operated by SkyWest Airlines	Los Angeles, San Diego (both begin November 6, 2017)
Alitalia	Rome–Fiumicino
All Nippon Airways	Tokyo–Narita
American Airlines	Charlotte, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix–Sky Harbor
Avianca	Bogotá
Avianca Costa Rica	San José de Costa Rica
Avianca El Salvador	San Salvador
Avianca Peru	Lima
British Airways	London–Heathrow
China Southern Airlines	Guangzhou, Vancouver
Copa Airlines	Panama City
Cubana de Aviación	Havana
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta, Detroit, New York–JFK, Salt Lake City
Iberia	Madrid
Interjet	Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Bogotá, Campeche, Cancún, Chetumal, Chicago–O'Hare, Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Cozumel, Culiacán, Dallas/Fort Worth, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Havana, Hermosillo, Houston–Intercontinental, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz, Las Vegas, León/El Bajío, Lima, Los Angeles, Mazatlán, Mérida, Miami, Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos, Monterrey, Montréal–Trudeau (begins July 13, 2017), New York–JFK, Oaxaca, Orlando/Sanford, Palenque, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Vallarta, Reynosa, San Antonio, San José del Cabo, San José de Costa Rica, San Luis Potosí, Santa Clara, Tampico, Tijuana, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Varadero, Veracruz, Villahermosa
JetBlue Airways	Fort Lauderdale, Orlando
KLM	Amsterdam
LATAM Brasil	São Paulo-Guarulhos
LATAM Chile	Santiago de Chile
LATAM Perú	Lima
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Magnicharters	Cancún, Cozumel, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Mérida, Puerto Vallarta, San José del Cabo
Southwest Airlines	Houston–Hobby
United Airlines	Chicago–O'Hare, Denver, Houston–Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco, Washington–Dulles
United Express	Houston–Intercontinental
VivaAerobus	Cancún, Chetumal, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Las Vegas (begins December 16, 2017), Mazatlán, Mérida, Monterrey, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Vallarta, Reynosa, San José del Cabo, Tijuana, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Villahermosa
Volaris	Cancún, Chetumal, Chicago–O'Hare, Chihuahua, Culiacán, Denver, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Hermosillo, Houston–Intercontinental, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Los Mochis, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexicali, Miami, Monterrey, New York–JFK, Oaxaca, Orlando, Puerto Vallarta, San Antonio (begins September 15, 2017), San Francisco, San José del Cabo, Tapachula, Tijuana, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Villahermosa Seasonal: Oakland
Wingo	Bogotá

Other Services

In addition to the scheduled airlines above, Mexico City airport is used by some further airlines for chartered flights including:

• Global Air
• Miami Air International
• Sunwing Airlines

Cargo

Cargolux Boeing 747-400F landing at the airport.

UPS Airlines Airbus A300-600RF landing from Louisville, KY

Aerounión 300B4-200F on final approach at Benito Juárez airport.

Atlas Air 747-400F taking off to Huntsville, AL

As of January 2016, Mexico City airport is served by 19 cargo airlines flying directly to Europe, Central, North and South America, Middle East and East Asia. The following airlines operate the scheduled destinations below.

Airlines	Destinations
ABX Air	Cincinnati, Guadalajara, Los Angeles
AeroUnion	Chicago-O'Hare, Guadalajara, León/El Bajío, Los Angeles, Monterrey
Air France Cargo	Atlanta, Guadalajara, Houston-Intercontinental, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto
Amerijet International	Miami
Atlas Air	Huntsville
Avianca Cargo	Bogotá
Cargojet	Hamilton
Cargolux	Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston-Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, New York-JFK
Cargolux Italia operated by Cargolux	Milan-Malpensa
Cathay Pacific Cargo	Anchorage, Guadalajara, Hong Kong, Los Angeles
Centurion Air Cargo	Miami Seasonal: Guadalajara, Los Angeles
DHL de Guatemala	Seasonal: Guatemala City
Emirates SkyCargo	Copenhagen, Dubai-Al Maktoum, Frankfurt, Houston-Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Zaragoza
Estafeta Air Cargo	San Luis Potosí, Villahermosa Seasonal: Mérida
IAG Cargo	Madrid
LATAM Cargo México	Bogotá, Campinas-Viracopos, Caracas, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Los Angeles, Manaus, Mérida, Miami, San José de Costa Rica
Lufthansa Cargo	Chicago O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Frankfurt, Guadalajara, New York-JFK
Qatar Airways Cargo	Atlanta, Doha, Houston-Intercontinental, Liège, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Zaragoza
UPS Airlines	Louisville

Airlines providing on-demand cargo services

• Aeronaves TSM
• Air Cargo Carriers
• Air Transport International
• Ameristar Air Cargo
• Atlas Air operated by Panalpina
• Cielos Airlines
• Florida West International Airways
• IFL Group operated by Contract Air Cargo
• Kalitta Air
• LAN Cargo
• Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas
• USA Jet Airlines
• Vigo Jet

Traffic statistics

In 2016, Mexico City International Airport moved 41,710,254 passengers, making it the busiest airport in Latin America in terms of total passengers. It registered a year-to-year increase of 8.5% and 72% since 2010. It also registered the largest number on net traffic in 2016, with more than 3.2 million passengers.

In terms of international passengers, it was the third busiest airport in Latin America with 14,056,083 passengers, behind Panama City and Cancún and the second busiest in Mexico after Cancún.

The airport is the busiest in Latin America by aircraft movements with 24% more operations than Bogotá-El Dorado and 44.65% more than São Paulo-Guarulhos. It is the 15th busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft departures. In 2016, the airport handled 448,147 aircraft operations, an average of 1,227 operations per day.

Regarding cargo, the airport is also the busiest in the country and the second busiest in Latin America, after El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá. During 2016, it moved over 483,433.40 tons, an annual increase of 8.17%. The net growth of 36,000 tons was the biggest in the region.

Mexico City Airport Passengers – 1990–2016 (millions)

Updated: January 30, 2017.

Passenger statistics

Year	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2016	27,654,171	7.7	14,056,083	10.2	41,710,254	8.5
2015	25,674,622	12.8	12,758,456	10.9	38,433,078	12.2
2014	22,753,467	8.9	11,502,272	8.2	34,255,739	8.6
2013	20,900,194	6.2	10,634,444	8.4	31,534,638	6.9
2012	19,678,117	12.7	9,813,436	10.2	29,491,553	11.84
2011	17,461,438	12.03	8,907,423	4.26	26,368,861	9.28
2010	15,587,068	3.44	8,543,467	5.47	24,130,535	0.46
2009	16,142,330	3.8	8,100,726	14.1	24,243,056	7.5
2008	16,777,773	1.1	9,432,444	1.5	26,210,217	1.3
2007	16,592,422	4.7	9,289,240	4.6	25,881,662	4.7
2006	15,848,060	2.1	8,879,236	3.3	24,727,296	2.5
2005	15,523,755	-	8,591,797	-	24,115,552	-

Aircraft movements

Year	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2016	327,273	4.2	120,874	7.3	408,972	5.0
2015	314,098	3.5	112,663	9.5	426,761	5.0
2014	307,017	4.3	102,937	4.7	409,954	4.4
2013	294,279	3.3	98,287	5.9	392,566	3.9
2012	284,971	7.1	92,772	10.4	377,743	7.9
2011	265,986	2.51	84,046	4.50	350,032	2.98
2010	259,470	3.3	80,428	0.5	339,898	2.4
2009	268,252	3.3	80,054	10.3	348,306	5.0
2008	277,294	3.3	89,267	2.3	366,561	3.1
2007	286,821	6.3	91,340	6.4	378,161	6.3
2006	269,719	6.8	85,874	7.1	355,593	6.9
2005	252,472	-	80,151	-	332,623	-

Cargo [metric tons]

Year	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2016	91,820.00	11.84	391,613.40	7.35	483,433.40	8.17
2015	82,100.42	21.92	364,814.69	10.14	446,915.11	12.13
2014	67,341.85	5.75	331,214.62	5.85	398,556.47	5.83
2013	63,678.54	19.05	312,911.31	1.71	376,589.85	5.15
2012	78,666.10	4.01	318,351.98	3.38	397,018.08	3.51
2011	81,953.37	3.41	329,502.22	6.90	411,455.59	4.68
2010	84,846.88	1.01	308,228.992	29.98	393,075.87	22.40
2009	83,999.43	13.47	237,134.01	15.01	321,133.44	14.61
2008	97,070.08	-	279,025.63	-	376,095.71	-

Top destinations

Busiest routes, 2016

Domestic
(includes traffic in both directions)

Rank	Airport	Passengers 2016	Passengers 2015	% Change	Carriers
1	Cancún, Quintana Roo	4,257,000	3,870,116	10.00	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Magni, VivaAerobus, Volaris
2	Monterrey, Nuevo León	3,173,395	3,102,954	2.27	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
3	Guadalajara, Jalisco	2,745,166	2,703,774	1.53	Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
4	Tijuana, Baja California	1,822,707	1,449,434	25.75	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
5	Mérida, Yucatán	1,413,536	1,310,514	7.86	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Magni, VivaAerobus, Volaris
6	Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas	919,457	858,119	7.15	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
7	Villahermosa, Tabasco	804,267	845,470	4.87	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
8	Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco	796,551	724,687	9.92	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Magni, VivaAerobus, Volaris
9	Chihuahua, Chihuahua	737,131	645,670	14.17	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
10	Hermosillo, Sonora	673,551	624,061	7.93	Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris
11	San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur	654,800	533,108	22.83	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Magni, VivaAerobus, Volaris
12	Veracruz, Veracruz	555,835	583,207	4.69	Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet
13	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua	551,871	463,550	19.05	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus
14	Oaxaca, Oaxaca	534,311	487,141	9.68	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Volaris
15	Bahías de Huatulco, Oaxaca	529,361	510,144	3.77	Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Magni, VivaAerobus, Volaris
16	Culiacán, Sinaloa	528,343	501,043	5.45	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Volaris
17	Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Coahuila	496,352	424,223	17.00	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
18	Acapulco, Guerrero	495,661	473,765	4.62	Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Volaris
19	Mazatlán, Sinaloa	400,513	366,563	9.26	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
20	Tampico, Tamaulipas	396,312	447,668	11.47	Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet
21	Mexicali, Baja California	391,676	333,917	17.30	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Volaris
22	León/El Bajío, Guanajuato	386,358	363,791	6.20	Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet
23	Reynosa, Tamaulipas	353,003	352,047	0.27	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
24	Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes	317,302	300,335	5.65	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet
25	La Paz, Baja California Sur	308,606	275,791	11.90	Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Volaris
26	Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Guerrero	306,448	267,582	14.52	Aeromar, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Magni, Volaris
27	Tapachula, Chiapas	303,173	260,826	16.24	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Volaris
28	Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche	286,337	357,235	19.85	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet
29	San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí	264,702	236,958	11.71	Aeromar, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet
30	Durango, Durango	236,920	190,992	24.09	Aeromar, Aeroméxico Connect, Volaris

International
(includes traffic in both directions)

Rank	City or Metropolitan Area (Airports)	Passengers 2016	Passengers 2015	% change	Carriers
1	Los Angeles (International, Ontario & Orange County), USA	1,134,656	1,000,433	13.42	Aeroméxico, American Airlines, Interjet, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Volaris
2	Houston (Intercontinental & Hobby), USA	926,297	751,453	23.27	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, United Express
3	Miami (International & Fort Lauderdale), USA	914,858	833,471	9.76	Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect, American Airlines, Interjet, JetBlue Airways, Volaris
4	New York (John F. Kennedy & Newark), USA	826,573	826,301	0.03	Aeroméxico, Delta Air Lines, Interjet, United Airlines
5	Bogotá, Colombia	707,972	661,166	7.08	Aeroméxico, Avianca, Copa Airlines Colombia, Interjet
6	Madrid, Spain	617,654	596,163	3.60	Aeroméxico, Iberia
7	Dallas/Fort Worth, USA	591,800	524,166	12.90	Aeroméxico Connect, American Airlines, Interjet
8	Panama City, Panama	495,006	428,471	15.93	Aeroméxico, Copa Airlines
9	Chicago (O'Hare), USA	493,147	501,261	1.62	Aeroméxico, American Airlines, Interjet, United Airlines, Volaris
10	Lima, Peru	454,788	386,821	17.47	Aeroméxico, Avianca Peru, Interjet, LATAM Perú
11	Paris (Charles de Gaulle), France	448,820	426,363	1.36	Aeroméxico, Air France
12	Atlanta, USA	440,340	415,183	6.06	Delta Air Lines
13	Havana, Cuba	421,927	353,334	19.41	Aeroméxico, Cubana de Aviación, Interjet
14	San Francisco (International & Oakland), USA	403,345	368,078	9.58	Aeroméxico, United Airlines, Volaris
15	Orlando (International & Sanford), USA	400,432	282,992	41.50	Aeroméxico, Interjet, JetBlue Airways, Volaris
16	Las Vegas, USA	383,950	388,948	1.29	Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris
17	Guatemala City, Guatemala	346,042	280,002	23.59	Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet
18	São Paulo (Guarulhos), Brazil	305,588	284,172	7.54	Aeroméxico, LATAM Brazil
19	San José, Costa Rica	274,233	263,334	4.14	Aeroméxico, Interjet
20	Amsterdam, Netherlands	256,113	200,506	27.73	Aeroméxico, KLM
21	London (Heathrow), United Kingdom	251,758	231,062	8.96	Aeroméxico, British Airways
22	Santiago, Chile	244,721	227,405	7.61	Aeroméxico, LATAM Chile
23	San Antonio, USA	240,273	321,033	25.16	Aeroméxico Connect, Interjet
24	Toronto (Pearson), Canada	226,598	180,225	25.73	Aeroméxico, Air Canada
25	Frankfurt, Germany	221,684	220,232	0.66	Lufthansa
26	Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina	189,908	167,289	13.62	Aeroméxico
27	San Salvador, El Salvador	181,652	172,542	5.28	Aeroméxico Connect, Avianca El Salvador
28	Vancouver, Canada	164,414	127,425	29.03	Aeroméxico, Air Canada
29	Washington (Dulles), USA	153,298	139,781	9.67	Aeroméxico, United Airlines
30	Montreal, Canada	113,831	100,718	13.01	Aeroméxico, Air Canada

Busiest routes, 2017 year-to-date

Domestic (January 2017)

Rank	City (airports)	Passengers handled	% change YoY
1	Cancún	395,613	22.04
2	Monterrey	237,195	9.97
3	Guadalajara	225,873	14.53
4	Tijuana	172,682	22.65
5	Mérida	125,410	14.46
6	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	82,874	15.00
7	Puerto Vallarta	66,152	2.17
8	Villahermosa	66,007	8.02
9	Chihuahua	63,710	36.86
10	San José del Cabo	64,439	35.89

International (January 2017)

Rank	City (airports)	Passengers handled	% change YoY
1	Los Angeles (LAX/SNA)	106,898	15.63
2	Houston (IAH/HOU)	83,458	12.09
3	Miami (MIA/FLL)	76,873	7.02
4	New York City (EWR/JFK)	68,999	4.37
5	Bogotá	65,267	8.19
6	Dallas/Fort Worth	50,638	8.88
7	Chicago-O'Hare	50,144	22.56
8	Madrid	48,307	1.80
9	Panama City	45,274	16.49
10	Lima	43,961	40.27

Busiest domestic freight routes (2015)

Rank	City	Freight tonnes handled
1	Guadalajara	36,075.06
2	Tijuana	10,567.60
3	Monterrey	10,129.25
4	San Luis Potosí	7,064.05
5	Cancún	4,635.15

Busiest international freight routes (2015)

Rank	City	Freight tonnes handled
1	Los Angeles (LAX)	48,394.06
2	Frankfurt	29,521.08
3	Paris (CDG)	21,690.96
4	Bogotá	20,028.75
5	Luxembourg	19,284.95
6	Amsterdam	17,842.07
7	Madrid	17,679.47
8	Doha	17,196.36
9	Louisville	14,841.56
10	Hong Kong	14,413.36

Inter-terminal transportation

Mexico City airport inter-terminal transit with Terminal 2 in background.

Terminal 1 is connected to Terminal 2 by the Aerotrén monorail system in which only connecting passengers with hand baggage are allowed to use with their boarding pass. Technical and cabin crew can also use it. The distance between the terminals is 3 km (1.9 mi). and the Airtrain's speed is 45 km/h (28 mph). Also there is a land service between terminals called "inter-terminal transportation". These buses are located at entrance no. 6 of Terminal 1 and entrance no. 4 of Terminal 2.

Ground transportation

Metro and bus services

Terminal 1 is served by the Terminal Aérea Metro station, which belongs to Line 5 of the subway, running from Pantitlán station to Politécnico station. It is located just outside the national terminal. Also, trolley bus line G runs from the bus stop next to the Metro to Boulevard Puerto Aéreo station 1.7 km (1.1 mi) away, allowing transfer to Metro Line 1 (one can also take line 5 to Pantitlán and change to line 1, which is a geographical detour). Terminal 2 does not have any Metro station, but is a 700 m (2,300 ft) walk from Pantitlán served by Metro lines 1, 5, 9, A and numerous local buses.

Terminals 1 and 2 have two land terminals operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Different bus lines operate from here [1], and provide continuous transportation services to the main cities located around Mexico City, such as Córdoba, Cuernavaca, Pachuca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala and Toluca.

Metrobús

In late 2010, former Head of Government of the Federal District Marcelo Ebrard announced a plan to build a new Metrobús Line 4 that would run from near Buenavista Station in the west of the city towards Mexico City airport. Construction on Line 4 started on July 4, 2011. The plans for Line 4 include a two step construction process with the first 28 km (17 mi) operational segment to be built between Buenavista and Metro San Lázaro. An extension provides travel between San Lázaro and the airport. The line opened on April 1, 2012.

Service	Destinations [departing from the airport]	Operator
	Metro San Lázaro, TAPO bus station, Historic Centre, Metro Buenavista, Buenavista Station	Metrobús, a government-owned corporation.

Authorized taxis

Taxis are in operation in Terminals 1 and 2 and there are two models of service: Ordinary service in a sedan type vehicle for 4 passengers. Executive service in 8 passengers vans. At present there are 5 taxi groups in operation. These are the only taxis authorized by the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) of the Federal Government.

Accidents and incidents

• On April 10, 1968, an Aerovías Rojas Douglas R4D-3 crashed on approach, killing all eighteen people on board. The aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled passenger flight, which was the airline's inaugural flight from Aguascalientes International Airport to Mexico City.
• On October 31, 1979, Western Airlines Flight 2605 crash-landed. The crew of the DC-10 landed on a closed runway and hit construction vehicles on the runway. There were 73 fatalities (including one on the ground) and 16 survivors.
• On December 12, 1981, a bomb exploded inside the passenger cabin of a parked Aeronica Boeing 727-100, tearing a hole into the fuselage. The captain, two flight attendants and a ground worker were injured. They had been on board the aircraft for pre-departure checks for a scheduled passenger flight to San Salvador and onwards to Managua's Augusto C. Sandino International Airport.
• An Aero California DC-9-15 overran a runway on July 21, 2004, during an intense storm at the airport. There were no victims, but the aircraft was scrapped. However, a woman died later due to a heart attack.
• On November 4, 2008 a Mexican Interior Ministry LearJet 45 crashed on approach around 18:45 local time. On board were Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño, who was top aide to President Felipe Calderón. Mouriño was in charge of the fight against the drug trade in Mexico. Also on board was José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, former assistant attorney general and current head of the federal technical secretariat for implementing the recent constitutional reforms on criminal justice and public security. All eight on board perished along with eight others on the ground. 40 others on the ground were injured. The crash was attributed to pilot error.
• On September 9, 2009, hijacked Aeroméxico Flight 576 landed at Mexico City International Airport from Cancún International Airport.
• On September 13, 2009, a Lufthansa Cargo McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 was damaged in a heavy landing. Post landing inspection revealed that there were wrinkles in the fuselage skin and the nose gear was bent. According to a Lufthansa spokesman, the aircraft will be repaired and returned into full service.

See also

• Transportation in Mexico
• Transportation in Mexico City

External links

• Mexico City International Airport
• Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares Template:Es icon
• Information about Mexico City Airport
• Accident history for MEX at Aviation Safety Network