Acapulco Airport
Aeropuerto Internacional General Juan N. Álvarez | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | MMAA |
IATA code | ACA |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 5 m (16 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 16 miles south of Acapulco |
Basic data | |
operator | GRANNY |
Terminals | 2 |
Passengers | 1,024,145 (2006) |
Air freight | 1267 t (2006) |
Flight movements |
28,015 (2006) |
Runways | |
06/24 | 1700 m × 35 m concrete |
10/28 | 3302 m × 45 m concrete |
The Aeropuerto Internacional General Juan N. Álvarez is the international airport of the Mexican city of Acapulco . The airport was named after Juan Álvarez Benítez (1790-1867), a general and president of Mexico, who took Acapulco from royalists on October 15, 1821 and was then commander of Acapulco.
The airport is the largest in Mexico's southern Pacific region. Aircraft up to the maximum size of a Boeing 747-200B can land at the airport. It is operated by OMA (Grupo Aeropurtario Centro Norte, SAB de CV) and is the southernmost of the 13 airports that this group, founded in 1998, operates.
The nearest commercial airports are Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (214 km), Toluca (288 km), Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (294 km), Puebla (303 km) and Puerto Escondido (304 km).
There are direct flights from Frankfurt am Main from German-speaking countries . These are carried out by Condor .
Web links
- The airport (English)
- Accident statistics and aerial photo (English)
- The airport in live flight tracking
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Worldwide Airport Traffic Statistics 2006. ( PDF ; 720 KB) Airports Council International , December 2006, archived from the original on October 8, 2007 ; accessed on March 4, 2015 .
- ↑ azworldairports ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Acapulco Airport on flightmapper.net (English)