MEXICO CITY’S SECOND AIRPORT COULD END AIR TRAVEL CONGESTION IN MEXICAN CAPITAL
April 1st, 2016
AIR travellers to Mexico City are looking forward to the opening – now scheduled for 2020 – of a new international airport, serving a conurbation of more than 21.5 million people. Construction began on November 13, the government has announced. The current Benito Juárez International Airport is operating at beyond its 32 million passenger annual capacity according to the Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México (GACM). In 2014, it handled 34 million travellers and 410,000 flight movements per year. The Mexican government’s secretariat of communications ...
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