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Rodriguez Airport
Airport Directory » Mexico » Tijuana » Rodriguez AirportGeneral Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport (IATA: TIJ, ICAO: MMTJ) in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, is Mexico's 2nd northernmost airport after Mexicali International Airport. Tijuana's Airport is a busy modern airport, which dealt 3.8 million riders in 2006, and 4.7 million riders in 2007. It is a fast turning airport, the 6th busiest airport in Mexico after Mexico City, Cancun, Guadalajara, Monterrey and Toluca airports. The airport registered a aggregative sum of money of 3,968,700 riders in 2008, corresponding a fall of 16.3% over 2007. It is able to deal up to 10 million riders per yr and 360 voyages per solar day.
The airport assists as focal point town for Aeroméxico (together with Aeroméxico Connect), the guiding air hose in Tijuana, which functions up to 70 daily voyages to/from 15 Mexican towns. Aeroméxico is attempting to evolve the airport as a gateway to Asia. Since the 1st voyage in November 2006, Aeroméxico functions two weekly voyages to Tokyo-Narita. The airport assists as hub for Volaris, now the 2nd guiding air hose at TIJ. It once was a focal point town for Aero California. Tijuana's airport was the biggest and briny hub for Avolar, a new low-cost air hose (since August 2005), and the airport's 2nd guiding air hose at a clip. It was the 1st low-cost air hose in Mexico, before some air hose as Interjet and Volaris.
It is division of the Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, a maintaining group that commands twelve international airports in central and northern Mexico.
History
The airport 1st depot was originally built on the southwest division of the airport, human facing the new and current depot construction. The airport was integrated to ASA in 1965.
By the finish of the 60's, the claim of voyages to the then-developing town of Tijuana increased, as more riders were coming and locating in the town. The building of the new depot set about and was opened in October 15, 1970, by then-President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.
The original depot was then portioned as an air ground for the Mexican Armed Forces, and it is currently just known as the aeropuerto viejo, or old airport.
The airport is named after General Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Governor of the North District of the Federal Territory of Baja California from 1923-1930, and late President of Mexico from 1932-1934.
Expansion
The airport depot was expanded and restituted in 2002, when the extension of concourse A and B was made, letting the depot to duplicate its capacity. Several taxi strip were also spread out, to let the functioning of bigger aircraft such as the Boeing 747. Nevertheless, as the airport has get 1 of the most eminent hubs and gateways in the state, and the only international gateway from Asia to Latinamerica, there is a architectural plan of a new depot, which is able to put up the functioning of the major air hose at the airport: Aeroméxico (including Aeroméxico Connect). As of currently, both of the concourses have been spread out and reconstructed, including the continuous tense unveiling of glass-jetways replacing the old 1.
Binational Terminal
On 2008, dominances from both Mexico and USA established Project Smart Border 2010, in which amongst other things, it was show the purpose for buiding an jump US-Mexico depot that would alleviate the saturated San Diego Intl. Aiport. The labor dwells of depot construction built on US grunge, immediate to the boundary line, with parkland, check-in counters, and usages business office that shall be connected via a span cut across the boundary line to the Tijuana Intl. Airport. Property on the US side of the boundary line has already been procured for this task, but programming, diplomatic and regulatory hurdles demand to be cleared before anybody building is able to set about.
Location
The landing track of the Tijuana Airport runs (east-west) parallel to the U.S.-Mexico mete fence and is about 100 metres southward of it. The draw close to the landing track is either from the east (ordinarily) or from the due west (when Santa Ana current of air statuses be). The airport's briny landing track is turn up merely 30 metres forth from the Autonomous University of Baja California.
Brown Field Municipal Airport (SDM / KSDM) in San Diego, California lies merely over 1 nm northward of TIJ, with a similar landing track length and a somewhat different orientation (08 / 26). However SDM is a civil aviation field not found for scheduled rider service.
Ground transportation system
Further info: Tijuana#Local_transportationBus
The airport may be hit from Downtown Tijuana or Zona Rio (or viceversa) by the local bus path Mirador-Miramar-Soler-Centro-Plaza Rio-Otay-Aeropuerto, for only $7.50 Mexican Peso (around $0.50 U.S. dollar, or about €35 cents) per sit ticket. Buses clips are from five:30 Am - nine:30 pm all Week.
Shuttle
Aeroméxico supplies a shuttle service from San Diego, California, United States to General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport to let San Diego inhabitants do connexions within Mexico, Japan,, while Volaris supplies a shuttle service between the airport and San Diego International Airport to let riders locomoting either to Mexico or the United States make their final destination. Otay Park & Shuttle supplies a round-trip shuttle service and parkland from Otay Mesa in San Diego to General Abeldardo L. Rodriguez Ingternational Airport.
Taxi
Due to a prohibition by Mexican jurisprudence, Mexican towns' public cab may only drop riders to the airport, but is able to lift up riders from the depot. The airport therefore offers transportation system for riders from the depot to anybody point of the town on the SAAT Taxis (Servicio Aeroportuario de Autotransporte Terrestre, Spanish for Terrestrial Transport Airport Service, an airport government-leased cab corporation). This and other clear cab bearers may be hit at the reaches hallway.
Facilities
Commercially mouth, the airport is composed of a individual landing track, a parallel taxi strip, and a 23 entrance briny depot with 2 concourses, a food judicature and a hi-tech control tower, 1 of the tallest in Mexico. At the opposite side of the Main Terminal construction there is another depot, the Old Airport Terminal, which houses army aviation, largely do by the Mexican Armed Forces. The airport is also used to a smaller extent for civil aviation, housed at the General Aviation Building (GAB Terminal).
Main Terminal:
- Number of entrances: 23
- Contact places: twelve
- Number of jetways: ten
- Number of baggage demanding roundabouts: four
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Lounges:
- Aeroméxico Salón Premier (Concourse A - Floor Level)
- VIP Room Tijuana (Main Terminal - Upper Level)
- Food judicature (Concourses A, B - Floor & Upper Level)
- Customs (Arrivals area )
- Taxi & auto rents (Arrivals & Departures area )
- Buses (Arrivals & Departures area )
- Duty Free (Main corridor, Concourses A, B)
- Parking area (Building E)
GAB Terminal:
- General air power apron
- VIP Room
- Pilots lounge
- Passengers lounge
Traffic Statistics
| Rank | City | Passengers |
|---|---|---|
| One | Guadalajara, Jalisco | 372,760 |
| Two | México, D.F | 339,644 |
| Three | Toluca, Estado de Mexico | 153,795 |
| Four | Culiacán, Sinaloa | 141,234 |
| Five | León, Guanajuato | 106,949 |
| Six | Morelia, Michoacán | 98,165 |
| Seven | Hermosillo, Sonora | 72,357 |
| Eight | Puebla, Puebla | 67,849 |
| Nine | Monterrey, Nuevo Leon | 59,424 |
| Ten | Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes | 43,370 |
| 11 | Uruapan, Michoacán | 42,420 |
| Twelve | La Paz, Baja California Sur | 40,972 |
| 13 | Zacatecas, Zacatecas | 33,160 |
| 14 | Acapulco, Guerrero | 30,031 |
| 15 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 25,600 |
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