Mexico City International Airport
Mexico City International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Greater Mexico City | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City, Mexico | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | May 15, 1931 | ||||||||||||||
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| Focus city for | Magnicharters | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | CST (UTC−06:00) | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,230 m / 7,316 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°26′10″N 099°04′19″W / 19.43611°N 99.07194°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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MEX Location within Mexico City MEX MEX (Mexico City) MEX MEX (Mexico) | |||||||||||||||
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| Source: DAFIF Statistics: Airport website | |||||||||||||||
Mexico City International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM), officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez (Benito Juárez International Airport) (IATA: MEX, ICAO: MMMX) is the primary international airport serving Greater Mexico City. It is the busiest airport in Mexico, and as of 2025 ranks as the third-busiest in Latin America, the 15th-busiest in North America, and the 50th-busiest in the world by passenger traffic. The airport is served by more than 25 airlines with routes to over 100 destinations across Mexico, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
As the primary hub for Mexico's flag carrier, Aeroméxico, the airport serves as a SkyTeam hub. It is also a hub for Volaris and Viva and a focus city for Magnicharters. The airport has two passenger terminals and two runways. It hosts agencies including the Mexican Airspace Navigation Services (SENEAM), the Mexican Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC), as well as an Air Force base. The airport is owned by the Mexican Navy and operated by Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México. It is named after 19th-century president Benito Juárez.
As part of Mexico City’s airport system—along with Toluca International Airport and Felipe Ángeles International Airport—the airport operates at full capacity. It is one of the busiest two-runway airports in the world, with 850 aircraft movements per day. With an average daily passenger count of 122,000, the airport handled 44,605,576 passengers in 2025, marking a 1.7% decrease from the previous year.