Mexico City's new airport will be amazing (Boeing)

[MountainBiking]

I found this video while researching something in Mexico. The video shows a few airports from around the world but the main focus of the video is Mexico City's new airport which will be under construction soon. The airport is being designed by a team of architects assembled from around the world and it will be a sustainable building. The video also shows what the designers predict the airport will change to in the future as air transportation increases there and you'll notice the airplanes changing to futuristic designs to correspond with the future.

The video is 95% in English and 5% is Spanish as the young Mexican architect explains the design and building highlights.

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http://youtu.be/Giybp-Ampk8

[PacoMartin]

Originally Posted by MountainBiking

The video shows a few airports from around the world but the main focus of the video is Mexico City's new airport which will be under construction soon.

Norman Foster (age 79) who is narrating the video has been working on airports for decades. He is referring to his past work.

1. Stansted Airport, UK (1991)
2. Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong (1998)
3. Beijing Capital International Airport (2008)
4. London Heathrow Airport East Terminal - (projected 2013)
5. Spaceport America, New Mexico - (2005-2013)
6. Queen Alia International Airport, Amman, Jordan 2005-2013
7. Thames Hub Airport, UK, 2013-

The scale of this project is incredible. He is talking about a 6 million square foot building (only a little smaller than the pentagon). Although it would have three runways to begin with, it could expand to six runways in the future. Theoretically it could handle more passengers than the busiest airport in the world today.

It is a prediction of vast change in Mexican transportation. Currently all the passengers in Mexico are about the same as passengers in California who are on trips of 500 miles or less. And Mexico has over three times the population of California.

Mexico City airport is currently the third biggest in Latin america behind Sao Paolo in Brazil and Bogota in Colombia. It's a "high and dry" airport which reduces fuel efficiency for takeoffs. The Boeing 777 that it has been using to go to Tokyo since 2006 cannot make it to Tokyo when it takes off from the "high and dry" airport. It must stop in Tijuana to refuel. On return it flies straight back to Mexico City. Passengers who board in TJ must take a connecting flight back home. With the new 787 acquired by Aeromexico this fuel stop is not necessary and will be eliminated.