Mexico City Airport

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Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México
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Characteristics
ICAO code MMMX
IATA code MEX
Coordinates

19 ° 26 ′ 11 ″  N , 99 ° 4 ′ 20 ″  W Coordinates: 19 ° 26 ′ 11 ″  N , 99 ° 4 ′ 20 ″  W
Height above MSL 2229.92 m (7316  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 6.5 km east of the city center (Zócalo)
Basic data
opening 1952
operator Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México
surface 746.43 ha
Terminals 2
Passengers 47,700,547 (2018)
Air freight 581,675.28 (2018)
Flight
movements 		458,588 (2018)
Employees 1061
Runways
05R / 23L 3900 m × 45 m asphalt
05L / 23R 3952 m × 45 m asphalt

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The International Airport of Mexico City (span: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México , AICM) is an international airport in Mexico's capital, Mexico City . The airport is named after one of the most important former presidents of Mexico, Benito Juárez , and is Mexico's transport hub for domestic and international flights with direct flights to more than 300 destinations worldwide.

The airport is the most important in terms of flight movements and freight turnover in Latin America and is among the top 30 worldwide. In terms of passenger throughput, it ranks 42nd worldwide. It is the home airport and hub of Aeromexico .

Construction work and plans

The airport suffers from the limited space of its relatively small area; due to the almost total conversion with residential quarters, expansion is only possible to a limited extent to the east. To make matters worse, the parallel runways are too close together to operate independently.

Plans to build a second, additional airport in Texcoco ( state of México ) or Tizayuca ( state of Hidalgo ) were decided by the government between 2001 and 2002, but were later rejected because local farmers were not satisfied with the severance payment they were receiving Land.

Therefore, extensive renovation work took place at the airport in 2006. These include new waiting halls in Terminal 1 and 1-E, as well as the construction of Terminal 2 and 3. The construction work is aimed at transporting 16 million additional passengers in addition to the 25 million already handled annually.

With the opening of Terminal 2 on January 15, 2008, AICM became the first Latin American airport at which the Airbus A380 can be handled. In the second terminal you can only find Aeroméxico with its SkyTeam partners. KLM and Air France will follow as soon as the new cargo center opens near Terminal 2. Air France and Lufthansa evaluated the Airbus A380 for the route to Mexico City, but rejected it due to the lack of passenger boarding bridges and waiting rooms in Terminal 1 that were too small. After extensive construction work on the runways and the terminal, Air France became the first airline on January 12, 2016 to operate flights with the Airbus A380 to Mexico City.

Currently (as of mid-2018) only Lufthansa offers direct flights from Frankfurt am Main and Munich to Mexico City.

On September 2, 2014, then President Enrique Peña Nieto announced that Mexico City would get a new airport. The airport will have six runways and a capacity of 120 million passengers per year. The architect of the airport terminal is Norman Foster , who has already planned airports for Beijing and Hong Kong. This new airport will be called Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México (NAICM) and has been under construction since September 2015. The airport grounds are located outside the capital district in the state of Estado de México (approx. 20 km northeast of downtown Mexico City). The future President Andrés Manuel López Obrador , who refuses to continue building, had a referendum carried out from 25 to 28 October 2018 by the non-governmental organization “Fundacíon Arturo Rosenbleuth” in 538 of the 2,463 municipalities in Mexico. Around 1% of those entitled to vote took part nationwide. In Mexico City the participation was 3.1%. The majority of the participants voted against the expansion of the new airport and for the modernization of the existing one and the expansion of two airports in the surrounding area. The referendum is not binding as it did not meet the norms for a referendum.

Incidents

  • On September 1, 1951, a Douglas DC-6 of the Mexicana de Aviación (registration XA-JOR ) coming from Los Angeles landed in an almost drained lake while approaching Mexico City Airport. All four crew members and 38 passengers survived the crash landing. The plane was beyond repair.
  • On September 21, 1969, struck Boeing 727-64 of Mexicana (XA-SEJ) 1500 m before the runway at Mexico City airport, jumped back up and collided with a railway embankment. The aircraft was in the correct landing configuration. The cause could not be clarified because the flight data recorder had not been working for days and the voice recorder had already been expanded. Of the 118 inmates, 27 were killed.
  • On March 31, 1986, the worst accident to date occurred in Mexico with a Boeing 727. A Boeing 727-264 of the Mexicana (XA-MEM) launched at Mexico City Airport crashed on the flight to Puerto Vallarta from almost 10,000 meters Control in the mountains near Las Mesas after an overheated tire filled with air instead of nitrogen burst in mid-flight, causing a fire, hydraulic failure and other damage. The triggers were maintenance errors on the chassis. All 167 occupants died (see also Mexicana flight 940 ) .

See also

Web links

Commons : Mexico City International Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pasajeros. ( Memento of November 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) 2005.
  2. ↑ INICIAN SERVICIO EN LA T2 DEL AICM: AEROMEXICO, AEROMEXICO CONNECT, COPA Y LAN ( Memento of September 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of January 11, 2008 (in Spanish) on the official website of the airport. Retrieved October 30, 2009.
  3. ↑ FAZ Mexico expands the capital's airport for 120 million passengers ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Seven billion euro project: Norman Foster builds airport for Mexico City. Spiegel Online, September 4, 2014, accessed September 4, 2014 .
  5. ↑ México entierra la multimillonaria obra del nuevo aeropuerto , El Periódico de México , October 29, 2018, accessed on November 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ Consulta del NAIM no superó la participación de otras consultas en la CDMX , El Financiero , October 28, 2018, accessed on November 5, 2018.
  7. ↑ Limitada consulta de AMLO para NAIM, excluye al 80% del país , accessed on November 5, 2018.
  8. ^ Accident report DC-6 XA-JOR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 27, 2017.
  9. ^ Accident report B-727-100 XA-SEJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 5, 2019.
  10. ↑ Accident report B-727-200 XA-MEM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 3, 2019.