New Mexico City international airport
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New Mexico City International Airport Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México |
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| Serves | Mexico City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Zona Federal del Lago de Texcoco, municipalities of Ecatepec, Atenco and Texcoco, State of Mexico, Greater Mexico City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 2020 (planned) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 19°30′00″N 98°59′51″W / 19.5°N 98.9975°WCoordinates: 19°30′00″N 98°59′51″W / 19.5°N 98.9975°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 New Mexico City International Airport
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A new Mexico City international airport was announced in the State of the Union address of Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto on September 2, 2014, who said that it would become a national symbol. The new airport will replace Benito Juárez International Airport, which is at full capacity. It is to have one large terminal of 8,000,000 square feet (743,000 m2) on a total lot of 4,600 hectares (11,400 acres). It will have three runways to start and will be expandable to up to six runways: two that are each 4,500 m (14,800 ft) long and four that are each 4,000 m (13,000 ft) long. With three runways in simultaneous use the airport will be able to serve up to 57,000,000 passengers per year. When fully built and at maximum runway capacity, the new airport will handle up to 120,000,000 passengers per year in an environmentally sustainable manner.
The master plan has been developed by the global engineering and consultancy company Arup Group Limited. The architects are Fernando Romero, architect of the Soumaya Museum, and Foster and Partners. The project will be a collaboration between FR-EE / Fernando Romero EnterprisE, Foster and Partners, and Royal HaskoningDHV's daughter Netherlands Airport Consultants (NACO).
The airport is expected, by the director of Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México, to be commercially open during 2020, with the former airport stopping operations 6–8 hours before.
Construction will be in two phases, 2015–2020 (but with some operations beginning in 2020) and a second phase to be defined. The first phase will put three runways into service, with another three to be added in the second phase. As of September 2014 the bidding process had not yet been launched. Phase I was originally estimated to cost 120 billion Mexican pesos, about 9.1 billion US dollars, but on September 4, 2014, the estimate was revised to 169 billion pesos (9.4 billion USD). The funding will be 58% public and 42% private. It will be built on land owned by the federal government in the lakebed of Lake Texcoco, an area known as the Zona Federal del Lago de Texcoco, in the State of Mexico, east of the current airport.
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