Cancun Airport

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Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancun
Location Cancun.png
Characteristics
ICAO code MMUN
IATA code CUN
Coordinates

21 ° 2 '12 "  N , 86 ° 52' 37"  W Coordinates: 21 ° 2 '12 "  N , 86 ° 52' 37"  W
Height above MSL 6 m (20  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 16 km southwest of Cancun
Basic data
opening March 30, 1975
operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR)
Terminals 4th
Passengers 23,601,509 (2017)
Air freight 17.091 t (2006)
Flight
movements 		97,228 (2006)
Runways
12R / 30L 3500 m × 60 m asphalt
12L / 30R 2800 m × 45 m asphalt

i1 i3 i5

i7 i10 i12 i14

Terminal 1, March 2014
Check In, Terminal 2, July 2007

The Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún is an international airport in the tourist center of Cancún on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico . It is the airport with the most international passengers in Latin America and, in terms of passenger numbers, the second largest airport in Mexico after Mexico City International Airport .

The nearest commercial airports are Cozumel (57 km), Mérida (289 km), Chetumal (322 km), Corozal ( Belize , 336 km) and San Pedro (Belize, 366 km).

history

The major airport was opened on March 30, 1975 by President Luis Echeverría Álvarez . Before that, there was a runway on Avenida Kabah.

From 1988 to 1996 the airport was the aviation hub for the charter airline Aerocancun . The airport is now one of the four hubs of the low-cost airline Viva Aerobus and one of the hubs of the airline Volaris .

A third has been added to the two terminals (Terminal 1 for charter flights, Terminal 2 for scheduled flights ). The opening of the 42,000 m², USD 100 million third terminal took place on May 17, 2007. Terminal 1 has been closed since October 2005 when the airport was exposed to Hurricane Wilma . Since then, charter flights have mainly been handled in Terminal 2.

A second runway was built parallel to the first at a distance of 1,420 meters. Completion took place according to plan in 2009. A second tower had to be built for the new runway. At 97 meters, it is the highest in Latin America.

After privatization, the airport has been operated by the private group ASUR ( A eropuertos del SUR este = Airports of the Southeast) since 1999 .

Flight connections

Direct flights from German-speaking countries are and were as of January 6, 2020 from the following departure airports:

Germany

Until 2015 there was a direct connection from Hamburg Airport by Thomson Airways for TUIfly (the route was previously operated for TUIfly by TUI Airlines Nederland ). This is currently not offered. Air Berlin flew to Cancún until Düsseldorf was dissolved . From Düsseldorf there were also direct connections from Condor Flugdienst and Eurowings and from Cologne / Bonn , also with Eurowings. Eurowings also had direct flights from Frankfurt .

Austria

  • There are no direct connections between Austria and Cancún.

Switzerland

Web links

Commons : Cancun Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ASUR Passenger Traffic (English)
  2. ↑ a b 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 .
  3. ↑ History of the airport on cancunlahistoria.org (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Inauguration of Second Runway at Cancún Airport ( Memento of December 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  5. ↑ Direct flights from Cancùn on flightmapper.net (English)