Toluca International Airport

Toluca International Airport, officially Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos International Airport (IATA: TLC, ICAO: MMTO) is an international airport in Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico. It is part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Airport Group, and it is being improved and promoted to handle some traffic for the city of Toluca, but it also serves as a low-cost carrier airport for Mexico City, serving Interjet and VivaAerobus, but in the past at different times also by Volaris and Aeromexico. The airport is named after President Adolfo López Mateos.

For the astronomical observatory, see MMT Observatory.

Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos International Airport

Aeropuerto Internacional Lic. Adolfo López Mateos
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorAdministradora Mexiquense del Aeropuerto Internacional de Toluca (AMAIT)
ServesToluca
Elevation AMSL2,580 m / 8,465 ft
Coordinates19°20′13″N 99°33′57″W
Map
TLC
Location of airport in Mexico
TLC
TLC (Mexico)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 4,310 14,140 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Number of passengers689,001
Ranking in Mexico29th 2
Source: Administradora Mexiquense del Aeropuerto Internacional de Toluca

It is considered as the main alternate airport for Mexico City International Airport since it is only 30 minutes or 40 km away from the Santa Fe financial district and has the longest runway of any airport in Mexico.

Overview

Construction of the airport began in 1970, as ordered by Jorge Jiménez Cantú, as a reliever airport for the Mexico City metropolitan area. It was inaugurated in 1984. [1]

Toluca went from serving 145,000 passengers in 2002, to 3,200,000 in 2007 and 4,300,000 in 2008. It used to be a hub for Volaris, but the company announced on March 8, 2011 that its hub in Toluca would switch to Guadalajara. Interjet also moved the bulk of its operations to Mexico City. As a result, the passenger traffic got significantly reduced: from 1,161,064 passengers in 2013 to 689,001 in 2019.[2]

The airport was reduced from four terminals to two after all domestic operations were handled at the Domestic Terminal. Before 2007, Interjet and Volaris had each one independent terminal, plus Terminal 1 (now Domestic Terminal) and the International Terminal. Recent renovations have expanded both the terminals and apron, making the airport capable of handling an excess of 6 million passengers each year.

Among the airlines that used to frequent Toluca were Aeroméxico Connect, Click Mexicana, Republicair and TAESA Airlines. [3] [4] At one point, the airport had service to the United States by Continental Express (later United Express) and Spirit Airlines. Service to Spain from Toluca was also offered by Air Madrid in the early 2000s. [5]

Facade of the terminal at night
Check-in counters

Airlines and destinations

Passenger
AirlinesDestinations
Conviasa Caracas
Interjet Acapulco, Cancún, Guadalajara, Huatulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Monterrey, Puerto Vallarta (all suspended)[6]
TAR Guadalajara, Monclova, Querétaro
VivaAerobus Cancún, Monterrey, San José del Cabo

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
FedEx Express Memphis
TUM AeroCarga Cancún, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, Mérida, Monterrey, Querétaro, Tijuana

Statistics

Top destinations
Busiest domestic routes at Toluca International Airport (2019)[7]
Rank City Passengers Ranking Airline
1  Nuevo León, Monterrey 121,338 Interjet, Viva Aerobus
2  Quintana Roo, Cancún 61,276 1 Interjet, Viva Aerobus
3  Jalisco, Puerto Vallarta 29,736 2 Interjet
4  Jalisco, Guadalajara 29,600 2 Interjet, TAR
5  Guerrero, Acapulco 27,837 1 Interjet
6  Baja California Sur, Los Cabos 20,292 2 Interjet
7  Guerrero, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo 2,348 1 Interjet
8  Oaxaca, Huatulco 837 Interjet

Transportation

A shuttle to Tecnológico station for the Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail will be provided when service commences in 2022.[8]

See also

References
  1. https://adnoticias.mx/2019/10/22/conoces-la-historia-del-aeropuerto-de-toluca-1030022/
  2. "Estadística Operacional de Aeropuertos / Statistics by Airport". Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  3. http://t21.com.mx/aereo/2006/07/06/cumple-click-mexicana-primer-ano-operaciones
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=xwo6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=taesa+airlines+toluca&source=bl&ots=oDdqGBW4rc&sig=ACfU3U0doTXA-Rt-bx2ZhvKg5Rwq_uu6qQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizvPigjPjoAhULUK0KHTv8A6AQ6AEwAnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=taesa%20airlines%20toluca&f=false
  5. https://www.mexconnect.com/articles/2735-lloyd-mexico-economic-report-september-2005
  6. "Interjet limits its operation to 6 destinations". EnElAire (in Spanish). May 2020. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  7. "Traffic Statistics by Airline" (in Spanish). Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes. January 2020. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  8. "Recorrido de la Obra". Ciudad de Mexico. Retrieved March 7, 2017.

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