As the main hub for Mexico's largest airline Aeroméxico and a secondary hub for its subsidiary Aeroméxico Connect, the airport has become a SkyTeam hub. In optimal conditions, and with recent renovations and expansion projects completed, the Benito Juárez airport will be able to handle up to 32 million passengers per year. For the 12-month period ending January 31, 2014, the airport handled 31,781,224 passengers. In 2013, the airport served 31,534,638 passengers, a 6.9% increase compared to 2012. It provides non-stop services from Mexico City to North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Asia and Europe. This hot and high airport is served by 30 domestic and international airlines and offers direct flights to more than 100 destinations worldwide.

In recent years Toluca Airport has become an alternate airport. The airport is owned by Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México and operated by Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares, the government-owned corporation, which also operates 21 other airports throughout Mexico.

Although Juárez was not its official name for several decades, it was formally named after the 19th century president Benito Juárez in 2006, and is Mexico's main domestic gateway. It is Mexico's busiest airport by both passenger traffic and aircraft movements and is Latin America's second busiest airport by passenger traffic after Guarulhos Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, and the busiest airport by aircraft movements. Benito Juárez International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez), (IATA: MEX, ICAO: MMMX) is a commercial airport that serves Mexico City, the capital of Mexico.

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