Official Outlines $400 Mln Mexico City Airport Project
8 June 2005
Dow Jones International News

MEXICO CITY (AP)--Work on a new terminal and shuttle train for Mexico City's overcrowded airport will start in August, Transportation Secretary Pedro Cerisola said Wednesday.

Cerisola told reporters the $400 million project would allow the airport to handle 33 million passengers a year, 10 million more than at present.

The project replaces a more ambitious plan to build a new airport that was scrapped in 2002 after months of sometimes violent protests by some of the farmers in the town, Atenco, where it was to be built.

Cerisola said the government development bank Nafinsa would finance the project, which involves a new terminal on the south side of the airport's runways.

It is to be linked to the existing north-side terminals with a 3-kilometer shuttle train. The trip should take passengers about 15 minutes. It will also have a new five-star hotel and a parking lot for 3,000 vehicles.

The existing terminal also is being expanded, a project due to concluded in September.

Cerisola was questioned by reporters after attending a meeting of architects.

President Vicente Fox earlier said the expansion was part of a broader plan to let the airport operate safely for another 25 to 30 years, partly by shifting some traffic to other urban areas.

The airport, founded in 1910, is now hemmed in on three sides by heavy urban development.

This is the definition of a stop-gap measure. Mexico City needs a new airport very badly, but hopefully this will allow incoming planes to find an open gate when they land.

I think it's going to be difficult to find land for an airport in that city without causing some locals to go nuts. Eventually they're going to piss someone off, I thought the Texcoco Airport idea was a good one.

Mexico City inaugurates new terminal at crowded international airport
15 November 2007

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico City's crowded international airport opened a long-awaited terminal Thursday that is expected to boost passenger capacity by more than 40 percent.

Officials say the $792 million Terminal 2 will let some 34 million travelers pass through Benito Juarez International Airport a year, up from current capacity of about 24 million.

An Aeromar jet headed to the western city of Colima was the first flight to take off from the new facility, followed by a Delta Air Lines flight to Atlanta, Georgia.

Aeromexico, Continental Airlines, Lan Chile and Copa Airlines are also expected to use the terminal, which will include a hotel, parking garage and shops when fully complete.

President Felipe Calderon will inaugurate the terminal officially early next year, when it is expected to be handling 43 percent of the airport's traffic, Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez said. The airport currently handles 54 takeoffs and landings every hour.

The expansion came after various failed attempts to build a new airport serving Mexico City.

In 2002, then-President Vicente Fox scrapped a plan to construct a six-runway, $2.3 billion airport in nearby Texcoco after machete-wielding farmers refused to give up their land.

i think it's not the best getaway.

mexico city needs an other airport OUTSIDE THE CITY...

Here some pics of the new terminal:

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7195/img0498wt9.jpg
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it looks nice,

in normal terms it would be functional for 10 years...
let's see if it's true.

Nice new terminal!
:okay:
Any photos of the shuttle train?
:?

^^ I could only get these...

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/8687/trenkp4gc8.jpg

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1734/2000085084052142857rsef5.jpg

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The Foreign Secretary pointed out that China is a priority partner with which seeks to establish a strategic relationship.

Beijing, China (November 22, 2007) .- The company Aeromexico will begin next March a flight between Mexico City and Shanghai, a move that demonstrates the great importance of the Asian giant in the country, confirmed yesterday in Beijing the Mexican Chancellor, Patricia Espinosa.

"China is a partner of priority, and that is why our country look that the strategic relationship has contained very specific actions, specific commitments, and long-term prospects.

"For this purpose much help direct flight Aeromexico has decided to open next March between Shanghai and Mexico City, with a stopover in Tijuana," said the Chancellor during a conference that offered at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

"Aeromexico will seek to have air links with the rest of Latin America," added the diplomatic before a large group of scholars from this country and Latin American diplomats.

Patricia Espinosa, who makes his first trip to China since he assumed his post as Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in December 2006, will be interviewed Friday with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi, and hold a meeting with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao , the second most powerful man in the Chinese political leadership.

"China is a priority partner for Mexico in Asia Pacific. Our foreign policy toward this country is designed and implemented with this strategic vision as a guide and foundation. Expand and deepen relations is a cornerstone of our strategy, so the government devotes considerable political and mobilizes diverse society actors to strengthen them, "she said, referring to the strengthening of strategic alliance that the country has with China.

He reported that within these strategies of foreign policy is also the trip that the President Felipe Calderon is programmed to China in the second quarter of 2008, just when the country is immersed in preparations for the Olympic Games in Beijing.

"Our foreign policy strategies reflect the dual purpose of establishing strategic alliances and promote heavily to Mexico in all fields with China: economic, commercial, cultural, diplomatic and tourism; we increase these flows enormous potential," she added.
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Sorry fot the Google translation. Original is in Spanish and I have no time to translate it by myself.

I thought that Mex-Rome was to start in March 08? China is also great news for a new destination especially with the up coming olympics. BTW has this flight being confirmed and what about new wide-bodies???

^^ Actually the announcement comes from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Aeromexico has said nothing yet.

Regarding the flight to Rome there's nothing official at the time. ;)

there are more international flight for aeromexico...

some destinations are budapest, rome, shanghai, seoul, barcelona...

nowadays AM have madrid, paris, tokyo, sao paulo, bogota, buenos aires, and vasty destinations in the US.

A new pic of the interstation train...

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5584/2057574015f43dc555f4ouq6.jpg

there are more international flight for aeromexico...

some destinations are budapest, seoul,


^ I can see Seoul because of the Skytem affiliation with AM, but Budapest???

Another good market for AM would be Portugal, Morroco and Canada in a near not to distance future. With more 772 to accomodate those travelers!

Yep, ive also heard that aeromexico is now studyng the possibility of opening a route to budapest. beacuse of the tourism of mexicans to hungary.

So many new routes and no news about new wide-bodies yet.

So many new routes and no news about new wide-bodies yet.

they bought some B777's... i don't think they gonna buy some A380 or B747 because mexico city airport is too small for them...

maybe in 20 years for the new airport :nuts:

they bought some B777's... i don't think they gonna buy some A380 or B747 because mexico city airport is too small for them...


How many new 777 have they purchased and when?

they have purchased 5 777 and 5 787 and 2 more 767

MEXICO CITY, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Mexican airport operator Asur expects double-digit passenger traffic growth for the second straight year in 2008, Chairman Fernando Chico Pardo said on Thursday.

Asur, which operates nine airports, including one serving the beach resort of Cancun, had passenger growth of 18.9 percent through the first nine months of this year, recovering from the impact of Hurricane Wilma, which thrashed the Caribbean in October 2005.

"We have been growing in the last few years at double-digit rates ... and we do not expect this growth to wane in 2008," Chico Pardo told reporters.

Passenger traffic growth has also been driven by the start-up of a host of low-cost airlines in Mexico. Chico Pardo said Asur is watching external factors, like the U.S. economy, for any impact on the company's results. U.S. tourists to Mexico are key for Asur.

Through the third quarter, Asur had handled 12.4 million passengers this year, including 7.1 million international travelers.

Shares of Asur were up 1.19 percent to 62.30 pesos. Its American Depositary Receipts were 1.42 percent higher at $57.31.:banana:

MEXICO CITY, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Mexican airport operator Asur expects double-digit passenger traffic growth for the second straight year in 2008, Chairman Fernando Chico Pardo said on Thursday.
Asur doesn't even manage Mexico City's airport.

http://www.asur.com.mx/asur/ingles/perfil/perfil.asp

ASA Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares is the administrator of the airport.

they bought some B777's... i don't think they gonna buy some A380 or B747 because mexico city airport is too small for them...

maybe in 20 years for the new airport :nuts:
Its not because the airport is too small for them it's because the market is to small and because the main focous in mexican aviation isnt long haul, plus they didnt bought those 777's they're leasing them

Its not because the airport is too small for them it's because the market is to small and because the main focous in mexican aviation isnt long haul, plus they didnt bought those 777's they're leasing them

actually the mexico city airport is quiet bussy...

dayly there are several longcourier flights like

3 to CDG & MAD. this routes could be a good choice for A380

1 to LHR, AMS & FRA. are always full, and sometime lufthansa & british has to send passenger to some other flights...

mean while lufthansa and airfrance will start to send this aircraft [maybe] in 2010-11...

and what i try to mean with the size is because Aeromexico's hubs are too small for the size of A380...

Actually Mexico City Airport is the only in latin america with capacity for the a380

actually the mexico city airport is quiet bussy...

dayly there are several longcourier flights like

3 to CDG & MAD. this routes could be a good choice for A380

1 to LHR, AMS & FRA. are always full, and sometime lufthansa & british has to send passenger to some other flights...


Actually i wasn't talking about the number of flight's MEX has (Which is not a lot) but about the mexican airlines.
Also the flight to LHR isn't daily

The question is when would another runway be added?

The question is when would another runway be added?

Actually i wasn't talking about the number of flight's MEX has (Which is not a lot) but about the mexican airlines.
Also the flight to LHR isn't daily

...for the moment there's no interest and maybe capability to add a BIG aircraft because for mexican airlines will not be good enough for their accoutings... in summer time could be usefull but it last only 3 months :ohno:

They are currently making studies of where to make the third runway.

They are currently making studies of where to make the third runway.


^ Isn't there like a lagoon/lake behind the airport that was consider at one time for an expansion of AICM. Can someone shed some light on this???

Yeah, there is a lake behind MEX, its a possible location for further expansions