Cancun Airport
Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancun | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | MMUN |
IATA code | CUN |
Coordinates | |
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 |
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 .
- Frankfurt am Main Airport : Condor Flugdienst , Lufthansa
- Munich Airport : Condor Flugdienst
Austria
- There are no direct connections between Austria and Cancún.
Switzerland
- Zurich Airport : Edelweiss Air (the connection was suspended for several years from 2014 and was then reactivated), Swiss
Web links
- Cancun Airport on cancun-airport.net ( Spanish , English )
- Accident statistics and aerial photo (English)
- The airport in live flight tracking
Individual evidence
- ↑ ASUR Passenger Traffic (English)
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ History of the airport on cancunlahistoria.org (Spanish)
- ↑ Inauguration of Second Runway at Cancún Airport ( Memento of December 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Direct flights from Cancùn on flightmapper.net (English)