Aeroméxico calls for adding a third terminal to the Mexico City International Airport

Mexico’s bequest hose Aeroméxico has projected gathering a 3rd terminal astatine the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) to lick the predominant congestion issues of Terminals 1 and 2.

“The airdrome has country to physique a caller Terminal 3 that would beryllium larger than Terminal 1 and 2 combined” Aeroméxico CEO Andrés Conesa Labastida said successful a podcast quality this week. “It would summation capableness from 50 cardinal passengers per year, to immoderate 70 oregon 75 million.” 

Terminal 2 was added to the Mexico City International Airport successful 2004, but 2 decades aboriginal hose executives see it excessively crowded. (File photo)

According to Conesa, Terminal 3 would beryllium built adjacent to Terminal 2, which would necessitate relocating Aeromexico’s attraction and repair workshops. Building it adjacent to Terminal 1 would not beryllium possible, helium said, since the tract presently houses substance farms and definite infrastructure that would beryllium hard to relocate. 

“I anticipation that this task could beryllium studied, due to the fact that it volition beryllium precise bully for the metropolis and the country,” Conesa said. 

Conesa added that his connection indispensable beryllium supplemented successful cognition by the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) adjacent Mexico City, and the Toluca International Airport successful Mexico state, creating a combined capableness of much than 100 cardinal passengers per twelvemonth successful the Valley of Mexico. 

“This would beryllium much than capable for the adjacent decades,” Conesa stated. 

This is not the archetypal clip the AICM’s congestion occupation has been addressed, and that a 3rd terminal has been proposed. In 2019, Gerardo Ferrando, CEO of the Mexico City Airport Group, announced a maestro program for a 3rd terminal was being drawn up and predicted that it would beryllium inaugurated successful 2020. At that clip helium said a 4th terminal was being analyzed arsenic well. 

Even then, Luis Felipe de Oliveira, manager of the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association, said that a 3rd terminal wouldn’t beryllium capable to lick the AICM’s structural issues. 

“A 3rd terminal would assistance but it won’t lick the problem,” Oliveira said then. 

During erstwhile President Enrique Peña Nieto’s medication (2012-2018), the maestro program for a caller airdrome had been approved to beryllium built successful Texcoco, adjacent Mexico City, designed by renowned designer Norman Foster. That partially built caller airdrome was canceled and the AIFA was built instead. 

Currently, the AICM is undergoing large renovation works to amended the rider acquisition up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which volition instrumentality spot successful Mexico, Canada and the United States. 

With reports from A21