MX-1483 Mexico City Texcoco Airport MVFR

  • Name
    Mexico City Texcoco Airport
  • ICAO
    MX-1483
  • Type
  • Region
  • Timezone
    6:19 pm (CST)
  • Municipality
    Mexico City
  • Coordinates
    19° 30′ 0″ N 98° 59′ 49″ E
  • Elevation
    7’332 ft (2’235 m MSL)

About Mexico City Texcoco Airport

Mexico City Texcoco Airport was a planned airport in Mexico City that was meant to become Mexico's New International Airport (Spanish: Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de México—NAICM or NAIM). The project was announced in September 2014 but was canceled in late 2018 after a referendum was held stating that the new airport should be built at a different location due to how close it was to close housing, rising cost and a geographical issue with the site. Felipe Ángeles International Airport opened in March 2022.

Texcoco Airport was first announced by President Enrique Peña Nieto in his State of the Union Address on September 2, 2014. It was billed as Mexico's largest public infrastructure work in a century, and was set to replace Mexico City's current Benito Juárez International Airport.

In October 2018, after construction had already begun, a non-binding referendum was organized by then President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in which almost 70 percent of the 1.067 million voters rejected the planned airport, choosing instead to build a new airport on the grounds of Santa Lucía Air Force Base.

Construction continued for several weeks, but was suspended on December 27, 2018 after López Obrador took office. In 2020, the government of Mexico announced that they would convert the 12,000-hectare (46 sq mi) space where the airport was being built into the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, which will be a public space and an area of ecological restoration.

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