Insiders Say Mexico Poised for New, Larger Capital Airport Due in 2018 Brendan Case, Nacha Cattan and Eric Martin - Bloomberg
go to original August 28, 2014

Mexico is reviewing design plans for a new Mexico City airport which will eventually have six runways and should begin operating by 2018. (WOCHit)

President Enrique Pena Nieto is poised to announce a new, larger airport for Mexico City that would open in 2018 to end persistent delays at Latin America’s busiest hub, people with direct knowledge of the plan said.

The project may be unveiled next week, possibly as soon as Pena Nieto’s Sept. 2 state of the nation speech, said three people, who asked not to be identified because details aren’t public. They said it initially would have at least three runways, one more than the current Benito Juarez International.

Pena Nieto’s commitment to the plan, with its promise of more passenger capacity, would cap months of deliberations on how to ease air-traffic congestion in the capital. The new airport probably will be the biggest public-works effort of his six-year term, with a previous government estimate of an investment of 120 billion pesos ($9.2 billion).

The site is within a few kilometers of Benito Juarez International, east of Mexico City’s center, two people said. The land between Mexico City and the nearby city of Texcoco would have room for expansion, and the runways eventually may double to six, two people said.

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