Monterrey International Airport

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General Mariano Escobedo International Airport (IATA: MTY, ICAO: MMMY) is an international airport located in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico. Together with Del Norte International Airport, General Mariano Escobedo International Airport handles domestic and international operations for the city of Monterrey and its metropolitan area.

The airport is considered one of the most modern airports in North America serving up to 8 million passengers per year. Eighty percent of passenger traffic is domestic, primarily from the cities of Mexico City, Guadalajara, Chihuahua, and Tijuana, and twenty percent of passenger traffic is international, primarily from the United States cities of Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles. There are almost 300 daily flights to more than 35 destinations in Mexico, North America, and Europe. It is considered as the country's fourth most important airport in terms of passengers handled and operations per year, after Mexico City International Airport, Cancun International Airport, and Guadalajara International Airport.

The airport serves as a hub for Aviacsa, Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect and Viva Aerobus. Airport terminals were renovated and expanded in 2003 and again in 2007. The airport handled 5.25 million passengers in 2006, representing a 12.7% increase over 2005 .

Terminal Configurations

• Terminal A, considered as the most modern air facility in the country (before the construction of Mexico City's Terminal 2), consists of a building comprising check-in facilities, baggage claiming, shopping areas, restaurants, customs, airport and airline offices, as many other services, while the satellite building connected via underground tunnels comprises all the VIP and waiting lounges, migration among other services as well as obviously the boarding gates. The Satellite building, is divided into two concourses, North Concourse for domestic flights (Gates A1-A15), while South Concourse comprises all the international flights that operate into the airport (Gates B3-B8).

• Terminal B, is currently under construction and is scheduled to open on the third quarter of 2008.

• Terminal C, recently inaugurated on November 30, 2006 by the Governor of Nuevo León, José Natividad González Parás, houses some operations from low cost carriers serving the airport, Viva Aerobus was the first airline to operate. This terminal works completely independent to Terminal A, opposite to Terminal B functionality.

Terminals, Airlines and Destinations

Terminal A

North Concourse: Domestic Flights

• Aero California (Hermosillo, Mexico City, Tijuana)
• Aeromar (Celaya, Mexico City, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi)
• Aeroméxico (Cancún, Mexico City)
  • Aeroméxico Connect (Acapulco, Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Culiacán, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, La Paz, León, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexicali, Piedras Negras, Poza Rica, Puebla, Puerto Vallarta, San Luis Potosí, Tampico, Tijuana, Torreón, Veracruz, Villahermosa)
• ALMA de Mexico (Cuernavaca, Chihuahua, Ciudad Obregon, Guadalajara, Puebla, Querétaro, Tuxtla Gutierrez)
• Aladia (Cancún, Orlando)
• Aviacsa (Cancún, Ciudad Juarez, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, León, Mexico City, Morelia, Tampico, Tijuana, Villahermosa)
• Interjet (Cancún, Guadalajara, Toluca)
• Magnicharters (Acapulco, Cancún, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Manzanillo, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, San José del Cabo)
• Mexicana (León, Mexico City)
• Volaris (Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Puebla, Toluca)

South Concourse: International Flights

• Aeroméxico (Detroit, Las Vegas, Madrid)
  • Aeroméxico Connect (Los Angeles, San Antonio)
• American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth)
  • American Eagle (Dallas/Fort Worth)
• Aviacsa (Las Vegas)
• Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
  • Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
• Delta Air Lines
  • Delta Connection operated by Shuttle America (Atlanta)
• Magnicharters (Varadero) [seasonal charter]
• Mexicana (Chicago-O'Hare, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York-JFK [begins May 1], San Antonio)
• Northwest Airlines
  • Northwest Airlink operated by Compass Airlines (Detroit) [begins May 2]

Terminal B

Under construction

Terminal C

This terminal is currently home to Viva Aerobus and is located in the cargo zone of the airport. The new Terminal C is currently under construction and will be ready between 2008 and 2009 with 10 gates.

• Viva Aerobus (Acapulco, Austin [begins May 1], Cancún, Cozumel, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Cuernavaca, Culiacán, Gary/Chicago [begins July 1], Hermosillo, Huatulco [begins August 1], Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, La Paz [begins August 1], León, Los Cabos [begins August 1], Mazatlán, Oaxaca [begins August 1], Mérida, Morelia, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, Tijuana, Veracruz, Villahermosa)

25°46′36″N 100°06′23″W

External links

• Monterrey International Airport location
• Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte (OMA)
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