Mexico City Airport Duty Free

Mexico City International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM); officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez (English: Benito Juárez International Airport) (IATA: MEX, ICAO: MMMX) is a commercial airport that serves Greater Mexico City. It is Mexico’s busiest and Latin America’s second busiest airport by passenger traffic; and it is both Mexico’s and Latin America’s busiest airport by aircraft movements. The airport sustains 35,000 jobs directly and around 15,000 indirectly in the immediate area. The airport is owned by Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México and operated by Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, the government-owned corporation, which also operates 22 other airports throughout Mexico. In recent years Toluca Airport has become an alternate airport.

This hot and high airport is served by 27 domestic and international passenger airlines and 17 cargo carriers. As the main hub for Mexico’s largest airline Aeroméxico (with Aeroméxico Connect), the airport has become a SkyTeam hub. It is also a hub for Aeromar, Interjet, Volaris and a focus city for VivaAerobus. On a typical day, more than 93,000 passengers pass through the airport to and from more than 100 destinations on three continents. In 2014, the airport served 34,255,739 passengers, an 8.63% increase compared to 2013. For the 12-month period ending February 28, 2015 the airport handled 34,666,635 passengers.

Operating at the limits of its capacity, the airport will be replaced by a new Mexico City international airport, announced in September 2014, to be built about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north-northeast of the current airport, east of Ecatepec.