Mexico City International Airport

Mexico City International Airport
Mexico City International Airport; Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México
	Mexico City Airport Terminal 2
	IATA: MEX; ICAO: MMMX; LID: ME1;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México
Operator	Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares
Serves	Mexico City, Mexico
Location	Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City
Hub for	Aeromar; Aeroméxico; Aeroméxico Connect; Interjet; Magnicharters; Volaris; AeroUnion (cargo); Mas Air (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	aicm.com.mx
Map
	MEX Location within Mexico City MEX MEX (Mexico) MEX MEX (North America)
Runways
Statistics (2019)
Passengers	50,308,049 5.5%
Cargo tonnage	556,142.3 4.4%
	Source: DAFIF[1][2]; Statistics: Airport website[3]

Mexico City International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM); officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez (Benito Juárez International Airport) (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.[4] 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.[5] In recent years Toluca Airport has become an alternate airport.[6]

This 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[3] pass through the airport to and from more than 100 destinations on four continents. In 2018, the airport handled 47,700,547 passengers, a 6.6% increase compared to 2017.[7]

Operating near the limits of its capacity,[8] calls for replacing the airport were announced in September 2014, with the proposed location to be built 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north-northeast of the current airport, east of Ecatepec.[9][10] In January 2019, construction of the new airport was cancelled.[11]

Location

Located at the neighbourhood of Peñón de los Baños within Venustiano Carranza, one of the sixteen boroughs into which Mexico City 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.[12][13]

History

Origins

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

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.[14][15] 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.[16][17] 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.[18]

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).[19]

1960s–1990s

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

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).[20]

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.[21][22][23] 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.[20]

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.[24]

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.[25]

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.[26]

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.[27] 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" neighbourhood.

The airport was formally named after the 19th-century president Benito Juárez in 2006.[28]

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.[29]

Lack of capacity and slot restrictions

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).[30] Another issue with the airport is the limitation that its two runways provide, for this reason, only government, military, commercial and specially authorised aircraft are allowed to use 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.

Attempt to replace the airport

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

Construction of a new Mexico City international airport was announced by Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto on September 2, 2014,[31] who said that it would be "emblemático": a national symbol, replacing the current Mexico City International Airport, which is at capacity. It was to have a single terminal of 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m²) and six runways: two of 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi; 15,000 ft) and four of 4 kilometres (2.5 mi; 13,000 ft). The architects were Sir Norman Foster and Fernando Romero, son-in-law of billionaire Carlos Slim and architect of the Soumaya Museum.[32][33]

Construction was to take eight years, costing 120 or 169 billion Mexican pesos, about 9–13 billion U.S. dollars, depending on the source, 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.[34][35] The terminal was to be sustainable, aiming at a LEED Platinum certification.[36] The project was cancelled on October 30, 2018 following a referendum.[37] The costs of cancellation are estimated at over US$5 billion.[38]

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.

Mexico City International Airport, terminal 2, hall 75

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 2

Opened in 2007
Overall terminal surface: 288,000 m² (3,100,000 sq ft)
Contact positions: 30
Remote positions: 10 (Aeromar)
Number of jetways: 30
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 centre. Although the terminal was intended to be served by all-SkyTeam member airlines, Air France and KLM decided to remain at Terminal 1.

Terminal 3

The proposed construction of a Terminal 3 was canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. It is estimated that it will take three or four years to bring the number of flights back to 2019 levels, by which time the General Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Santa Lucía, Zumpango, State of Mexico will be open.[39]

Other facilities

Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, a government-owned corporation that operates airports in Mexico, has its headquarters on the airport property.,[40] Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares.[41] The Aeromar headquarters are located in Hangar 7 in Zone D of the General Aviation Terminal of the airport.[42][43] Aviacsa had its headquarters in Hangar 1 in Zone C, but ceased operations on May 4, 2011.[44]

The Base Aérea Militar número 19 (Military Air Base number 19), formerly Sexto Grupo Aéreo de la Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (Sixth Air Grou of the Mexican Air Force), opened at the AICM on July 22, 2020, when the presidential airplane " José María Morelos y Pavón" (XC-MEX), returned from the United States, where it had been put up for sale. The main hangar on the base is being used to store suppolies for the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[45]

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.[46] 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

KLM Boeing 747 arriving from Schiphol.

An Air Canada Airbus A319 at MEX

Iberia Airbus A340-600 taxiing at the airport.

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

MEX in 2018

Interjet aircraft parked at the side of T1. Interjet links the airport with 51 destinations within Mexico and other 7 countries.

Airlines	Destinations
Aeromar	Acapulco, Ciudad Victoria, Colima, Guadalajara, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Ixtepec, Laredo (begins October 5, 2020),[47] Lázaro Cárdenas, Manzanillo, McAllen, Oaxaca, Piedras Negras, Poza Rica, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Vallarta, Saltillo, San Luis Potosí, Tepic, Veracruz
Aeroméxico	Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza, Cancún, Chicago–O'Hare, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Denver, Detroit, Guadalajara, Havana, Hermosillo, Las Vegas, Lima, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Medellín–JMC, Mérida, Mexicali, Miami, Monterrey, Montréal–Trudeau, New York–JFK, Orlando, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Puerto Vallarta, Quito, San Francisco, San José de Costa Rica, San José del Cabo, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul–Incheon, Tijuana, Tokyo–Narita, Toronto–Pearson, Vancouver, Villahermosa
Aeroméxico Connect	Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Austin, Campeche, Cancún, Chetumal, Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Culiacán, Dallas/Fort Worth, Durango, Guatemala City, Hermosillo, Houston–Intercontinental, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz (Mexico), León/El Bajío, Los Mochis, Managua, Manzanillo, Matamoros, Mazatlán, Mérida, Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos, Morelia, Nuevo Laredo, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, Reynosa, San Antonio, San José del Cabo, San Luis Potosí, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Santo Domingo–Las Américas, Tampico, Tapachula, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz, Villahermosa, Zacatecas
Air Canada	Vancouver
Air Canada Rouge	Toronto–Pearson Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Alitalia	Rome–Fiumicino
All Nippon Airways	Tokyo–Narita
American Airlines	Charlotte, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix–Sky Harbor
Avianca	Bogotá
Avianca El Salvador	San Salvador
British Airways	London–Heathrow
Copa Airlines	Panama City
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York–JFK, Salt Lake City
Emirates	Barcelona, Dubai–International
Iberia	Madrid
Interjet	Acapulco, Bogotá, Campeche, Cancún, Cartagena, Chetumal, Chicago–O'Hare, Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Cozumel, Culiacán, Dallas/Fort Worth, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Guayaquil, Havana, Hermosillo, Houston–Intercontinental, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Las Vegas, León/El Bajío, Lima, Los Angeles, Mazatlán, Medellín–JMC, Mérida, Miami, Monterrey, Montréal–Trudeau, New York–JFK, Oaxaca, Orlando, Palenque, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Vallarta, Quito, San Antonio, San José de Costa Rica, San José del Cabo, San Salvador, Santa Clara, Tampico, Tijuana, Toronto–Pearson, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Vancouver, Veracruz, Villahermosa Seasonal: Varadero
KLM	Amsterdam
LATAM Brasil	São Paulo–Guarulhos
LATAM Chile	Santiago de Chile
LATAM Perú	Lima
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Magnicharters	Cancún, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Mérida, Puerto Vallarta, San José del Cabo Seasonal: Cozumel, Manzanillo
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul¹
United Airlines	Chicago–O'Hare, Houston–Intercontinental, Newark, San Francisco, Washington–Dulles
VivaAerobus	Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Houston–Intercontinental, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Mazatlán, Mérida, Monterrey, New York–JFK, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Vallarta, Reynosa, San José del Cabo, Tampico, Tijuana, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Villahermosa, Zacatecas Charter: Havana, Varadero
Volaris	Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Campeche (begins October 2, 2020),[48] Cancún, Chetumal, Chicago–O'Hare, Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Colima, Cozumel, Culiacán, Denver, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, La Paz, Las Vegas, León/El Bajío, Los Angeles, Los Mochis, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexicali, Miami, Monterrey, Oakland, Oaxaca, Orlando, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Vallarta, San Antonio, San José del Cabo, San Luis Potosí, San Salvador, Tampico (resumes October 2, 2020),[48] Tapachula, Tepic, Tijuana, Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz, Villahermosa
Volaris Costa Rica	Guatemala City, San José de Costa Rica
Wingo	Bogotá

Notes

^1 Turkish Airlines' flight from Mexico City to Istanbul makes a stop in Cancún; however, the airline doesn't have local traffic rights between Mexico City and Cancún.

Other Services

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

Cargo

As of January 2020, Mexico City airport is served by 21 cargo airlines flying directly to Europe, Central, North and South America, Middle East, Africa and East Asia. The following airlines operate the scheduled destinations below.

Airlines	Destinations
ABX Air	Cincinnati, Guadalajara, Los Angeles
AeroUnion	Chicago–O'Hare, Cincinnati, Guadalajara, León/El Bajío, Los Angeles, Miami, Monterrey
Air France Cargo	Atlanta, Guadalajara, Houston–Intercontinental, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Porto
Amerijet International	Miami
Atlas Air	Huntsville
Avianca Cargo	Bogotá
CAL Cargo Air Lines	Liège
Cargolux	Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston–Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, New York–JFK
Cargolux Italia	Milan–Malpensa
Cathay Pacific Cargo	Anchorage, Guadalajara, Hong Kong, Los Angeles
DHL Aviation	Cincinnati, Guadalajara, Los Angeles Seasonal: Guatemala City
Emirates SkyCargo	Copenhagen, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Frankfurt, Houston–Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Quito, Zaragoza
Estafeta Air Cargo	San Luis Potosí, Villahermosa Seasonal: Mérida
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo	Addis Ababa, Los Angeles, Miami, Zaragoza
Lufthansa Cargo	Chicago O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Frankfurt, Guadalajara, New York–JFK
Mas Air	Bogotá, Campinas–Viracopos, Caracas, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Los Angeles, Manaus, Mérida, Miami, San José de Costa Rica
Qatar Airways Cargo	Atlanta, Doha, Houston–Intercontinental, Liège, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Macau, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Zaragoza
Turkish Airlines Cargo	Bogotá, Curaçao, Houston–Intercontinental, Istanbul–Atatürk, Maastricht, Madrid
UPS Airlines	Louisville

Airlines providing on-demand cargo services

Traffic statistics

In 2018, Mexico City International Airport moved 47,700,547 passengers, making it the busiest airport in Latin America in terms of total passengers. It registered a year-to-year increase of 6.6%.[7]

In terms of international passengers, it is the busiest airport in Latin America with 17,204,824 passengers.[3]

The airport is the busiest in Latin America by aircraft movements with 24% more operations than Bogotá-El Dorado[49] and 44.65% more than São Paulo-Guarulhos.[50] It is the 15th busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft departures.[51] In 2018, the airport handled 458,588 aircraft operations, an average of 1,256 operations per day.[7]

Regarding cargo, the airport is also the busiest in the country and the second busiest in Latin America, after El Dorado International Airport[49] in Bogotá. During 2018, it moved 581,675.28 tons, an annual increase of 8.27%. The net growth of 44,000 tons was the biggest in the region.[7]

**Mexico City Airport Passengers – 1990–2019 (millions)**

Updated: January 29, 2020.

**Passenger statistics**[52]
Year	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2019	32,660,267	7.1	17,647,782	2.6	50,308,049	5.5
2018	30,495,723	5.2	17,204,824	9.2	47,700,547	6.6
2017	28,979,063	4.8	15,753,355	12.1	44,732,418	7.2
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
2018	317,722	0.7	140,866	4.9	458,588	2.0
2017	315,409	3.6	134,255	11.1	449,664	0.3
2016	327,273	4.2	120,874	7.3	448,150	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
2019	104,832.5	3.0	451,309.8	6.0	556,142.3	4.4
2018	101,774.72	2.49	479,900.56	9.58	581,675.28	8.27
2017	99,303.94	8.15	437,958.75	11.83	537,262.69	11.13
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	-

Busiest routes, 2019

**Domestic**[53]
(includes traffic in both directions)
Rank	Airport	Passengers 2019	Passengers 2018	% Change	Rank Change	Airline(s)
1	Cancún, Quintana Roo	5,009,235	4,990,647	0.37		Aeroméxico, Interjet, Magnicharters, VivaAerobus, Volaris
2	Monterrey, Nuevo León	3,601,937	3,452,421	4.33		Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
3	Guadalajara, Jalisco	3,386,521	3,167,438	6.92		Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
4	Tijuana, Baja California	2,151,343	1,964,460	9.51		Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
5	Mérida, Yucatán	1,851,414	1,686,256	9.79		Aeroméxico, Interjet, Magnicharters, VivaAerobus, Volaris
6	Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco	1,094,694	956,419	14.46		Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Interjet, Magnicharters, VivaAerobus, Volaris
7	Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas	981,008	931,000	5.37		Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
8	San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur	971,016	844,785	14.94		Aeroméxico, Interjet, Magnicharters, VivaAerobus, Volaris
9	Hermosillo, Sonora	837,470	749,957	11.67	2	Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
10	Chihuahua, Chihuahua	823,872	769,778	7.03		Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
11	Villahermosa, Tabasco	822,731	805,807	2.10	2	Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus
12	Oaxaca, Oaxaca	760,500	644,544	17.99		Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
13	Culiacán, Sinaloa	681,165	593,181	14.83	1	Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
14	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua	679,749	556,245	22.20	2	Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
15	Huatulco, Oaxaca	654,254	606,160	7.93	2	Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Interjet, Magnicharters, VivaAerobus, Volaris
16	Veracruz, Veracruz	633,761	560,474	13.08	1	Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris
17	Acapulco, Guerrero	577,426	476,406	21.20	1	Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris
18	León/El Bajío, Guanajuato	532,619	469,675	13.40	1	Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris
19	Torreón/Gómez Palacio, Coahuila	505,289	506,486	0.24	2	Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus
20	Mazatlán, Sinaloa	472,728	445,281	6.16		Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
21	Mexicali, Baja California	457,377	390,041	17.26	1	Aeroméxico, Volaris
22	Tampico, Tamaulipas	418,907	417,690	0.29	1	Aeroméxico, Interjet
23	Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes	399,063	345,992	15.34		Aeroméxico, Volaris
24	La Paz, Baja California Sur	395,915	309,462	27.94	4	Aeroméxico, Volaris
25	Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca	355,029	271,937	30.56	4	Aeromar, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
26	Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Guerrero	345,297	320,111	7.87		Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Interjet, Magnicharters, VivaAerobus, Volaris
27	Chetumal, Quintana Roo	343,337	318,923	7.66		Interjet, Volaris
28	Tapachula, Chiapas	333,272	320,797	3.89	3	Aeroméxico, Volaris
29	San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí	306,395	323,862	5.39	5	Aeromar, Aeroméxico, Volaris
30	Reynosa, Tamaulipas	289,380	269,898	7.22		Aeroméxico, VivaAerobus

**International**[53]
(includes traffic in both directions)
Rank	Airport	Passengers 2019	Passengers 2018	% Change	Rank Change	Airline(s)
1	Los Angeles, USA	1,044,786	1,236,168	15.48		Aeroméxico, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Interjet, Volaris
2	New York–JFK, USA	1,037,259	1,009,024	2.80	1	Aeroméxico, Delta Air Lines, Interjet, VivaAerobus
3	Madrid, Spain	880,988	779,777	12.98	2	Aeroméxico, Iberia
4	Bogotá, Colombia	866,896	849,590	2.08		Aeroméxico, Avianca, Interjet, Wingo
5	Houston–Intercontinental, USA	831,729	1,049,838	20.78	3	Aeroméxico, Interjet, United Airlines
6	Miami, USA	770,177	663,277	16.12		Aeroméxico, American Airlines, Interjet, Volaris
7	Lima, Peru	712,003	630,227	12.98	2	Aeroméxico, Avianca Peru, Interjet, LATAM Perú
8	Dallas/Fort Worth, USA	703,307	658,552	6.80	1	Aeroméxico, American Airlines, Interjet
9	Chicago–O’Hare, USA	663,715	649,473	2.19	1	Aeroméxico, Interjet, United Airlines, Volaris
10	Paris-Charles de Gaulle, France	569,693	506,519	12.47	1	Aeroméxico, Air France
11	Panama City-Tocumen, Panama	551,599	522,505	5.57	1	Aeroméxico, Copa Airlines
12	Toronto-Pearson, Canada	483,115	453,353	6.56	1	Aeroméxico, Air Canada Rouge, Interjet
13	Guatemala City, Guatemala	475,680	454,479	4.66	1	Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris Costa Rica
14	Havana, Cuba	468,884	423,135	10.81	3	Aeroméxico, Cubana de Aviación, Interjet, VivaAerobus
15	Orlando, USA	455,747	443,465	2.77	1	Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris
16	Las Vegas, USA	423,377	432,984	2.22		Aeroméxico, Interjet, VivaAerobus, Volaris
17	Atlanta, USA	416,177	416,570	0.09	1	Delta Air Lines
18	San José, Costa Rica	405,674	392,136	3.45	1	Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris Costa Rica
19	San Francisco, USA	404,792	436,078	7.17	4	Aeroméxico, United Airlines
20	Vancouver, Canada	360,060	357,029	0.85		Aeroméxico, Air Canada, Interjet
21	Amsterdam, Netherlands	347,538	333,992	4.06		Aeroméxico, KLM
22	São Paulo–Guarulhos, Brazil	324,830	326,023	0.37		Aeroméxico, LATAM Brasil
23	Montréal–Trudeau, Canada	318,031	267,126	19.06	1	Aeroméxico, Air Canada Rouge, Interjet
24	San Salvador, El Salvador	306,330	195,438	56.74	6	Aeroméxico, Avianca El Salvador, Interjet, Volaris
25	Santiago, Chile	295,650	289,167	2.24	2	Aeroméxico, LATAM Chile
26	San Antonio, USA	292,894	255,471	14.65	1	Aeroméxico, Interjet, Volaris
27	London–Heathrow, UK	259,692	252,446	2.87	1	Aeroméxico, British Airways
28	Tokyo–Narita, Japan	233,723	219,158	6.65		Aeroméxico, All Nippon Airways
29	Frankfurt, Germany	221,581	220,346	0.56	2	Lufthansa
30	New York–Newark, USA	214,524	171,578	25.03	1	United Airlines

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.[54]

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 , and provide continuous transportation services to the main cities located around Mexico City, such as Córdoba, Cuernavaca, Pachuca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala and Toluca.

Metrobús

Public Transport between terminals 1 and 2.

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 included a two-step construction process with the first 28 km (17 mi) operational segment to be built between Colonia Buenavista and San Lázaro Metro station. An extension provides travel between San Lázaro and the airport. The line opened on April 1, 2012 with two stations, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2.[55]

Service	Destinations [departing from the airport]	Operator
	Metro San Lázaro, TAPO bus station, Historic Centre, Metro Buenavista, Buenavista Station, Tren Suburbano	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 authorised 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.[56]
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.[57][58]
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.[59]
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.[60]
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.[61]
On September 9, 2009, hijacked Aeroméxico Flight 576 landed at Mexico City International Airport from Cancún International Airport.[62]
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.[63] According to a Lufthansa spokesman, the aircraft will be repaired and returned into full service.[64]

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