Benito Juárez International Airport (IATA airport code: MEX) serves Mexico City, Mexico. It is named after the 19th century Mexican statesman Benito Juárez and is Mexico's main international and domestic gateway. This airport offer direct flights to more than 200 destinations worldwide.
This huge international airport, is Latin America's major 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 Mexico) is facing major construction, 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 25m currently.
On November 28, 2004, the Arizona Republic, in a article in that newspaper, found it remarkable that, after the September 11 terrorist attacks, Benito Juarez International Airport kept the plane spotting area open to the public, whereas a large number of airports worldwide had decided to close them. 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 Juarez 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.
Disasters
In 1979, a Western Airlines DC-10 plane coming in from Los Angeles crash landed in the airport, killing all but 15 of the 150 passengers on that flight.
Terminals
Benito Juárez International Airport has 3 terminals:
Domestic Terminal
- Concourse A
- Concourse B
- Concourse C
- Concourse D
International Terminal
- Concourse E
- Concourse F1
- Concourse F2
- Concourse F3
- Concourse G
- International Departures 1
- Concourse H
- Sky Team Gates 29-36
- International Arrivals 2
Terminal 2
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Last updated: 05-29-2005 14:47:51
