Overview
- AICM projects nearly 50 million passengers in 2026, citing a roughly 20% load increase during peak World Cup months and up to 5.5 million travelers per month.
- Authorities do not plan an extraordinary slot increase for the tournament, expecting the underused hourly slot 44 to provide limited extra capacity.
- Rehabilitation works have revealed structural damage in at least 28 terminal modules, lifting estimated costs to about 9 billion pesos to meet safety needs.
- Aeroméxico CEO Andrés Conesa proposes a larger Terminal 3 next to Terminal 2 that would replace Terminals 1 and 2 and raise AICM capacity to roughly 70–75 million passengers.
- Conesa also urges coordination with AIFA and Toluca and a relocation of maintenance facilities, while analysts say current upgrades do little to relieve runway and gate bottlenecks.