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| Benito Juárez International Airport | |||
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| Summary | |||
| Type of airport | commercial | ||
| Operator | Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México | ||
| Opened | September 1, 1954 | ||
| City | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico | ||
| IATA | MEX | ICAO | MMX |
| Statistics | |||
| 2003 | |||
| Number of passengers | ~25.5 million | ||
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Benito Juárez International Airport Template:Airport codes serves Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. It is 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.
This huge international airport, 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 relocate the airport to either Texcoco (EdoMex) 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 15 million passengers more per year, up from 29 million currently.
On November 28, 2004, the Arizona Republic, a U.S. newspaper, published an article sayint 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 Benito Juárez 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.
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Terminals
Benito Juárez International Airport has 2 terminals:
Domestic Terminal
- Concourse A
- Aeroméxico (Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Ixtapa, La Paz, Loreto, San José del Cabo, Matamoros, Mazatlán, Mérida, Monterrey, Puerto Vallarta, Reynosa, Tijuana, Torreón, Veracruz, Villahermosa)
- 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)
- Aerocaribe (Cancún, Chetumal, Huatulco, Ixtapa, Mérida, Nuevo Laredo, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido, Saltillo, San Luis Potosí, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz, Villahermosa)
- Aerolitoral (Ciudad Obregón, Los Mochis)
- Aeromar (Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Victoria, Colima, Guadalajara, Huatulco, Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo, Minatitlán, Monterrey, Morelia, Poza Rica, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tepic, Uruapan, Xalapa, Zacatecas)
- Mexicana (Acapulco, Cancún, Ciudad del Carmen, Cozumel, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Huatulco, Ixtapa, León, San José del Cabo, Manzanillo, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexicali, Minatitlán, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Tampico, Tijuana, Veracruz, Villahermosa, Zacatecas, Zihuatanejo)
- Concurse B
- Concourse C
- Aviacsa (Acapulco, Cancún, Ciudad Juárez, Chetumal, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, León, Mérida, Mexicali, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Tampico, Tapachula, Tijuana, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Villahermosa)
- Concourse D
- Líneas Aéreas Azteca (Acapulco, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana, Zacatecas)
- Magnicharters (Monterrey)
International Terminal
- Concourse E
- Concourse F1
- Aerolíneas Argentinas (Buenos Aires, Lima)
- Aeroméxico (Atlanta, Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Las Vegas, Lima, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, New York/JFK, Ontario, Orlando, Paris, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Santiago, São Paulo)
- Air France (Paris)
- Continental Airlines (Houston/Intercontinental, Newark)
- Continental Express (Houston/Intercontinental, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio)
- Copa Airlines (Panama City)
- Delta Airlines (Atlanta, New York/JFK)
- Ecuatoriana de Aviacion (Quito)
- Japan Airlines (Tokyo/Narita, Vancouver)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Lan Peru (Lima)
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit)
- Concourse F2
- Air Canada (Toronto)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Mexicana (Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Chicago/O'Hare, Denver, Guatemala City, Guayaquil, Havana, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New York/JFK, Oakland, Portland, Quito, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose (California), San José (Costa Rica), San Salvador, Toronto, Vancouver)
- Tikal Jets Airlines (Guatemala City)
- United Airlines (Chicago/O'Hare, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington/Dulles)
- US Airways (Charlotte)
- Varig (Cancún, São Paulo)
- Concourse F3
- Aero California (Los Angeles)
- American Airlines (Chicago/O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami)
- America West Airlines (Phoenix)
- Aviacsa (Chicago/O'Hare, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami)
- Avianca (Bogotá)
- British Airways (London)
- Cubana (Havana)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- Lan Chile (Santiago)
- Líneas Aéreas Azteca (Ontario)
- Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (Guayaquil, Santa Cruz)
- TACA (Caracas, Guatemala City, San José (Costa Rica), San Salvador)
External links
- Benito Juárez International Airport Homepage (http://www.aicm.com.mx)
- Benito Juárez International Airport English Page (http://www.mexico-city-mex.com/)
- Aviation Safety Network – Aviation accidents and occurrences database (http://aviation-safety.net/)es:Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México