Benito Juárez International Airport

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The International Airport of Mexico City ( Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM ) is an international airport in Mexico's capital Mexico City. Although he has no official name, it is called colloquially after the statesman Benito Juárez. The airport is Mexico's transport hub for national and international flights and offers direct flights to more than 300 worldwide destinations.

The airport is the busiest in Latin America and ranks among the top 30 by aircraft movements and cargo revenue. In terms of passenger throughput, he is ranked 42nd worldwide

2004, there were 325 332 aircraft movements take place ( 39th worldwide).

Construction and plans

The airport suffers from the limited space given its relatively small area, because of the almost total coupled enclosure with living quarters is just an extension to the east limited. To make matters worse, that the parallel runways are too close together in order to operate them simultaneously.

Plans to build a second, additional airport in Texcoco ( Mexico State ) or Tizayuca ( state of Hidalgo ), were decided by the Government between 2001 and 2002, but later rejected them because local farmers were not satisfied with the compensation they need for their had received land.

Therefore, in 2006, detailed reconstruction works at the airport took place. These include new concourses in Terminal 1 and 1- E, and the construction of Terminal 2 and 3. The building measures are aimed at the future to carry 16 million additional passengers to the already handled 25 million annually.

With the opening of Terminal 2 on 15 January 2008, the AICM was the first Latin American airport at which the Airbus A380 can be dispatched. In the second terminal exclusively Aeroméxico is found with its SkyTeam partners. KLM and Air France to follow once the new cargo center opened near Terminal 2. Air France and Lufthansa have evaluated the Airbus A380 for the route to Mexico City, but dropped due to lack of passenger boarding bridges and small waiting rooms in Terminal 1.