New International Airport for Mexico City New International Airport for Mexico City Mexico City's New International Airport (NAICM) was announced in the State of the Union address of Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto on September 2, 2014, and was the largest public infrastructure work in Mexico in a century. The new airport was set to replace current Benito Juárez International Airport, the busiest airport in Latin America transporting 41.7 million passengers in 2016. The development of NAICM was planned in four stages. Phase I, was scheduled to open by October 20, 2020, would have consisted of one main terminal of and three independent runways, which would
Benito Juárez, Mexico City Tacubaya. Further integration of the area into Mexico City proper came in 1899, when prefectures such as Tacubaya, Mixcoac and General Anaya became part of the city’s direct jurisdiction. The Federal District was reorganized into thirteen municipalities in 1903, with the Tacubaya area (which then accounted for much of what is now Benito Juárez) divided into the municipalities of Mixcoac, Santa Fe, Cuajimalpa and the village of Tacubaya. During the Mexican Revolution, the Zapatistas took control of the south of the current Federal District including parts of Benito Juárez like Mixcoac. Residential development of the Benito Juárez area began during