Mexico City International Airport

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Mexico City International
IATA: MEX - ICAO: MMMX
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Grupo Aeroprtuario de la Ciudad de Mexico
Serves		Mexico City
Elevation AMSL		7342 ft (2238 m)
Coordinates		19°26′11″N, 99°04′20″W
Website		http://www.aicm.com.mx
Parts of this article may come from Wikipedia
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
05R/23L	12,795	3,900	Asphalt
23R/05L	12,996	3,952	Asphalt

Contents 1 General 2 Gate Assignment 3 Flight Planning Resources 4 IFR Routes 5 Available Sceneries

General

Manchester Airport also called Benito Juárez International Airport is a commercial airport that serves Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. Although this was not its official name for several decades, it was formally named after the 19th century president Benito Juárez in 2006, and is Mexico's main international and domestic gateway. This hot and high airport offers direct flights to more than 100 destinations worldwide. In 2005, the airport served 27 million passengers, increasing to 29.7 in 2006 and 19 million in the first half of 2007. When current renovations and expansion projects are done (including the construction of a new terminal), the airport will be able to handle up to 40 million passengers a year.

AICM is Mexico's and Latin America's largest and busiest airport and is one of the 30 most important airports worldwide in terms of passengers, operations, and cargo.[citation needed] The airport, comprises a wide variety of options for passengers, as one hotel inside Terminal 1, as another one is expected in Terminal 2.

Plans to build a second, auxiliary airport in either Texcoco (State of Mexico) or Tizayuca (Hidalgo) were floated by the government in 2001–02, but these were later shelved due to resistance from local farmers dissatisfied with the price offered for their land. Because of this, the AICM (Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México) is undergoing major construction work, including new concourses in the Terminal 1, and a new terminal, Terminal 2 , this to handle an additional 16 million passengers each year, from the current 24 million served in Terminal 1. With the opening of T2 it will be the first Latin American airport capable of handling the Airbus A380.

Expansion of Terminal 1 has already been achieved, incluiding a brand new International Concourse, new aisles to increase the flow of passengers, the division of arrivals and departures on different levels, a new corridor that connects the H concourse to the F check-in areas with new Duty Free shopping areas, the construction of a new level on the Domestic side of the building, and the new hall on the landside of the Domestic check-in areas, the expansion of internal hall B, as 15 more conveyors for baggage claiming on halls E3, E4, and C2. Also the remodeling on the outer image from both, airside and landside parts of the terminals, and interiors.

The airport will be able to compete with world's major airports, as to offer any service available at an airport. The construction of Terminal 2, means the introduction of a new kind of service in the country, since it will be, together with Monterrey's Terminal A, Mexico's most modern air facility, as the introduction of inter-terminal transportation in Mexico City. After Terminal 2 is fully operative, airplanes landing on the right runways will use the right terminal, and viceversa, reducing by almost 10 minutes, the time per airplane from its landing to the parking at the contact position.

When the major construction works end, the airport will count with 59 boarding gates, as well as 31 remote positions, for a total of 90 parking positions for aircraft serving the airport.

Gate Assignment

MetroAir operates out of gate 24-26 at MMMX. FS9 Gates 26,33 and 36

Flight Planning Resources

• Airport Diagram
• Procedures - contains SID, STAR and IAP

IFR Routes

Pilots should add their IFR route plans originating from MMMX here as a central repository for their fellow pilots.

Destination	Route	Suggested Altitude	Charts	Preferred	Comments
KDTW		32,000 Range: FL180-400 (even)	KDTW KDTW		N/A

Available Sceneries

FS version	pay-/freeware	developer	available updates
FS9	freeware	AVSIM - Bill Melichar - Mexico City International Airport - january 2005	AVSIM - Bill Melichar - MexicoV2 Fix - january 2005 + AVSIM - Simon Dove - AFCAD update - september 2007