
The Mexico City International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México or AICM), sometimes called Benito Juárez International Airport serves Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. Although it has no official name, it is colloquially named after the 19th century statesman Benito Juárez and is Mexico‘s main international and domestic gateway. This airport offers direct flights to more than 100 destinations worldwide. AICM is Mexico’s and Latin America‘s busiest airport, and is one of the 30 most important airports worldwide in terms of passengers, operations, and cargo. The airport, comprise a wide variety of options for passengers, as three hotels inside Terminal 1 (Hilton, Camino Real Hotel, and JR Inn), as another more 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 1-E, and a new terminal, the Terminal 2 (T2), this to handle up to 16 million passengers more per year, up from 32 million currently. With the opening of T2 it will be the first Latin American airport to be capable of handling the Airbus A380. Expansion of Terminal 1 has already been achieved, incluiding a brand new International Terminal (F), new aisles to increase the flow of passengers, the division of arrivals and departures on different levels, a new tunnel that connects the H concourse to the F check-in areas (J) 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 76 boarding gates, as 41 remote positions, for a total of 96 parking positions for aircraft serving the airport. On November 28, 2004, The Arizona Republic, a U.S. newspaper, published an article saying that it was remarkable that, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Benito Juárez International Airport kept its plane spotting area open to the public, whereas a large number of airports worldwide had decided to close theirs. The Republic estimated that about 300 viewers and 100 model airplane and food sellers are attracted to the area every day. The airport‘s director told the newspaper that they had decided to leave the area open because it offered a free alternative for low-income families to spend the day.
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