Mexico City International Airport
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The
Mexico City International Airport (
Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México) sometimes called
Benito Juárez International Airport 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
Latin America's busiest airport, and is one of the 30 most important airports worldwide in terms of passengers, operations, and cargo.
Plans to build a second, auxiliary airport in either
Texcoco (
Mexico State) 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 two new terminals, the Terminal 2, and Terminal 3, these to handle up to 16 million passengers more per year, up from 32 million currently.
On
November 28,
2004,
The Arizona Republic, a
U.S. newspaper, published an article saying that it was remarkable that, after the
September 11 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 way of spending the day to poor families.
Early in 2005,
Qantas,
Singapore Airlines and
China Airlines, among others, announced interest in opening routes to Mexico City International Airport from
Australia and
Asia. While
Mexicana is studying the possibility of launching flights
Mexico City-
Tijuana-
Tokyo/
Bangkok/
Shanghai/
Hong Kong/
Singapore with
Airbus A340-500 aircraft.With the opening of T2 it will be the first latin-american airport to be capable of handle the a380.
Terminal 1
Domestic Area
*Hall A
**
Aero California (Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Ciudad Victoria, Colima, Culiacán, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, La Paz, Los Cabos, Los Mochis, Manzanillo, Matamoros, Mérida, Mazatlán, Monterrey, Puerto Vallarta, San Luis Potosí, Tampico, Tepic, Torreón, Tijuana, Veracruz, Villahermosa)
**
Aeroméxico (Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz, León, Matamoros, Mazatlán, Mérida, Monterrey, Puerto Vallarta, Reynosa, San José del Cabo, Tijuana, Torreón, Villahermosa)
***
Aerolitoral (Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Obregón, La Paz, Los Mochis, Oaxaca, Torreón)
*Hall B
**
Mexicana (Acapulco, Cancún, Ciudad del Carmen, Colima, Guadalajara, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, León, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexicali, Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, San José del Cabo, Tampico, Tijuana, Veracruz, Villahermosa, Zacatecas)
***
Click Mexicana (Cancún, Chetumal, Cozumel, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Mérida, Monterrey [starts September 1, 2006], Nuevo Laredo, Puerto Escondido, Saltillo, San Luis Potosí, Tampico [starts September 1, 2006] Torreón, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz, 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 del Carmen, Ciudad Victoria, Colima, Guadalajara, Lázaro Cárdenas, Manzanillo, Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos, Monterrey, Morelia, Poza Rica, Puebla, Queretaro, Reynosa, Salina Cruz, San Luis Potosí, Tepic, Uruapan, Xalapa, Zacatecas)
**
Líneas Aéreas Azteca (Acapulco, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana, Zacatecas)
*Hall D2
**
Magnicharters (Cancún, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Manzanillo, Mérida, Puerto Vallarta, San José del Cabo)
International Terminal
*
Aero California (Los Angeles)
*
Aerolíneas Argentinas (Bogotá, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
*
Aeroméxico (Boston, Chicago-O'Hare, Houston-Intercontinental, Las Vegas, Lima, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, New York-JFK, Ontario, Orlando, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Phoenix, San Diego, Santiago, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
*
Air Canada (Montréal, Toronto)
*
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
*
Alaska Airlines (Los Angeles)
*
American Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami)
*
Aviacsa (Houston-Intercontinental)
*
Avianca (Bogotá)
*
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
*
Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
**
Continental Express operated by
ExpressJet Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, McAllen)
*
Copa Airlines (Panama City)
*
Cubana de Aviación (Havana)
*
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
*
Iberia (Madrid)
*
Japan Airlines (Tokyo-Narita, Vancouver)
*
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
*
LAN Airlines (Santiago de Chile)
**
LAN Peru (Lima)
*
Líneas Aéreas Azteca (Oakland, Ontario)
*
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (Panama City, Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
*
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, Portland, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose (CA), San José (CR), San Salvador, Toronto, Vancouver)
*
Northwest Airlines (Detroit)
*
TACA (Caracas, Guatemala City, San José (CR), San Salvador)
*
US Airways (Charlotte)
**
US Airways operated by
America West Airlines (Phoenix)
*
United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington-Dulles)
*
Varig (Bogotá, Manaus, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
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.
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Benito Juárez International Airport Homepage*
Satellite View of Mexico City International Airport at Google Maps
