General Mariano Escobedo International Airport
IATA: MTY – ICAO: MMMY
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte (OMA)
Location		Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
Hub for		Aeromexico Connect Magnicharters VivaAerobus
Elevation AMSL		1280 ft / 390 m
Coordinates		25°46′42″N 100°06′23″W / 25.77833°N 100.10639°W / 25.77833; -100.10639Coordinates: 25°46′42″N 100°06′23″W / 25.77833°N 100.10639°W / 25.77833; -100.10639
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
11/29	9,843	3,000	Concrete
16/34	5,909	1,801	Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Total Passengers			5,199,895
Source: Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte

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 5 million passengers per year. Eighty seven percent of passenger traffic is domestic, primarily from the cities of Mexico City, Guadalajara, Chihuahua, and Tijuana, and thirteen percent of passenger traffic is international, primarily from the American cities of Dallas and Houston. There are almost 300 daily flights to more than 35 destinations in Mexico and the United States. 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, Cancún International Airport, and Guadalajara International Airport.

The airport serves as a hub for Aeroméxico Connect, Magnicharters, VivaAerobus with a secondary hub for Aeroméxico. Airport terminals were renovated and expanded in 2003 and again in 2007. The airport handled 6,586,190 passengers in 2008 and in 2009, 5,199,895 used Monterrey Airport..

Terminal configurations

• Terminal A, 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). Several flights are delayed day by day due to the lack of free contact and even remote positions, as the ones capable of handling large aircraft such as the Boeing 767. Nevertheless, Terminal C and Terminal B work as a relief system for this terminal. There are future plans to remodel and expand the Satellite building, adding at least 4 new jetways and 3 remote positions.

• Terminal B, considered as the second most modern air facility in the country (only behind the Mexico City's Terminal 2), it was opened on September 2010. The terminal comprise 8 gates, 6 of which are equipped with jetways and 2 apron-doors which might be used by Aeroméxico's feeder airline Aeroméxico Connect. The terminal house all operations of the Sky Team member airlines, similar to Terminal 2 in Mexico City International Airport. The airport terminal is able to handle up to 2 million passengers per year, and allows the airport to free some slots for new airlines to operate into Terminal A.

• Terminal C, recently inaugurated on November 30, 2006 by former Governor of Nuevo León, José Natividad González Parás, houses the operations from low cost carrier serving the airport, VivaAerobus. This terminal works completely independent to Terminal A, opposite to Terminal B functionality.

• Air Cargo Terminal, recently launched the "Air Cargo Terminal", which has 6 hectares for operations.

Courier companies operating nationally and abroad, notably FedEx, DHL, UPS, Estafeta.

Facilities

• Terminal A: 9 contact positions, 12 remote positions
• Terminal B: 6 contact positions, 7 remote positions
• Terminal C: 8 remote positions
• Number of jetways: 9 (Terminal A), 6 (Terminal B)
• Number of baggage claiming carousels: 4
• Lounges at Terminal A:
  • Mexicana Elite Lounge (Closed) (North Concourse)
  • American Express Centurion (Floor Level)
• Lounges at Terminal B:
  • Aeroméxico Salón Premier (North Concourse)
• Food court (Floor & Upper Level)
• Customs (Arrivals area)
• Taxi & car rentals (Arrivals & Departures area of each terminal)
• Buses (Arrivals & Departures area each terminal)
• Duty Free (Floor & Upper Level)
• Parking area

EAG Terminal:

• General Aviation Apron
• VIP Lounge
• Pilot's Room
• Passenger's Room

Terminals, airlines and destinations

Main corridor at the Airport's Terminal A.

Corridor at the Airport's Terminal A.

Tunnel to the gates at Terminal A.

National Hall at Terminal A.

International Hall at Terminal A.

Airport's Terminal C.

Cargo airlines

Traffic statistics

Accidents and incidents

• On 11 February 2010, Click Mexicana Flight 7222, operated by Fokker 100 XA-SHJ suffered an undercarriage malfunction on approach to Quetzalcóatl International Airport, Nuevo Laredo. A low fly-past confirmed that both main gears had not deployed. The aircraft diverted to Monterrey. It was substantially damaged in the landing, having departed the runway and spun through 180°.

• On April 13th 2010 an Aerounion – Aerotransporte de Carga Union Airbus A-300B4-200, registration XA-TUE performing a freight flight from Mexico (Mexico) to Monterrey (Mexico) with 5 crew, crashed on approach to land on General Mariano Escobedo International Airport's runway 11. The aircraft came to rest on a highway at around 23:30L (04:30Z Apr 14th). All on board perished, 1 person in a truck on the highway was also reported killed, the airplane was destroyed after a large fire broke out.

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