Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. The airport currently has two terminal buildings and serves approximately 29 million passengers a year which is getting very close to its capacity of 32 million. Ten years later in 1990, the mixed domestic/international gates were separated to increase the terminal’s functionality, along with the separation of domestic and international check-in halls. In 1980, the terminal was expanded to double its capacity, using a single large terminal rather than multiple terminals as in other airports. This left the airport with just two parallel runways which happens to be its current configuration. At that time it had five runways, however in the 1970s, president Luis Echeverría closed three runways to give the land to poor people in order for them to build homes. The airport first opened in the 1920s as a military airport and was known as Balbuena Military Airport. In Mexico it is the busiest airport by both passenger traffic and aircraft movements and in Latin America it is the busiest airport by aircraft movements and the second busiest airport by passenger traffic after Guarulhos Airport in São Paulo, Brazil.
Benito Juárez International Airport, ICAO: MMMX is the airport that serves Mexico City.
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