MEXICO AIRPORT (MEX)
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Mexico Airport (IATA: MEX, ICAO: MMMX), also known as Mexico City International Airport, officially named Benito Juárez International Airport, is the main airport serving the greater Mexico City.
Is the busiest airport in Mexico and the busiest airport in Latin America. The airport is located 5 km (3 miles) east from Downtown Mexico City. The airport operates with domestic and international flights, being the top ten busiest routes these destinations/airports: Cancún, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Tijuana, Mérida, Los Ángeles, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Houston, New York and Puerto Vallarta.
MEX airport serves as a hub for Interjet, Volaris, Aeromar and Aeroméxico, this last one being the largest airline at the airport and has become a SkyTeam hub in 2017.
Mexico Airport handled 44,732,418 passengers, a 7.2% more compared to the previous year. From May 2015 to May 2016 the airport handled more than 39,5M passengers, among them 12,8 were international passengers.
Terminals + info
México Airport has two terminals, 1 and 2, connected via runways.
Both terminals are 3 km apart, but connected by Airtrain.
Terminal 1
Is the largest terminal in the America. It has 3 sections (1, 2 and 3) with gates from 1 to 15, from 17 to 23 and from 24 to 36.
It also connects directly with more than 5,000 parking spaces split between the International and the Domestic area. More info
Terminal 2
It has 2 halls: K and H. Hall K has gates from 52 to 62 and Hall M has gates from 62 to 75 (+ gate 75). More info
Transfer between terminals
Aerotren and local buses run between terminals.
Facilities and Services + info
At Mexico Airport you can find the following facilities (among others):
- Shops and Duty Free stores
- Restaurants, cafés and bars
- Medical Care
- Currency Exchange Services
- ATMs and Banks
- Shoe Shine
Vip Lounges are available at both terminals and each one is runned by one of these airlines / companies:
- American Express
- Centurion Club
- Televisa
- MasterCard
- Lufthansa
- HSBC
See more services here.
Contact information
Address: Av Capitan Carlos Leon S / N, Penon de los Banos, Venustiano Carranza, 15620 Mexico City, DF, MEXICO
Telephone: +52 55 2482 2400
Transport + info
Mexico Airport is equipped with the following means of transportation:
- Bus: Various routes connect Terminal 1 and 2 with different points of interest in Mexico City and other destinations. More info.
- Metrobus: Links the airport with Mexico City (Line 4) with various intermediate stops. More info
- Metro: The closest metro station is “Terminal Aérea Station”. Line 5 runs between Pantitlán and Politécnico. More info
- Taxis: Get within 20 minutes to downtown Mexico City. More info
- Hotel Shuttles: Several hotels located in the vicinities provide hotel shuttle service.
Hotel information
Terminal 1 is close to four hotels:
Camino Real, Courtyard by Marriot and Fiesta Inn by Fiesta Americana and Hilton.
Terminal 2 is close to NH Hotel.
See more information about Hotels.
Mexico City Airport in numbers
- 2 terminals
- 2 runways
- More than 30 gates
- 3 parking lots
- In 2017 more than 44.7 million passengers
- 1st busiest airport in Latin America
- 1st busiest airport in Latin America by aircraft movements
- Terminal 1 is the 4th largest terminal in the world
- More than 20 airlines operate at the airport.
