Flight Report

This dataset covers three days of ADS-B traffic at Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX/MMMX) from March 19 to 21, 2026, captured on the 74th anniversary of the airport's official opening. Over that period, 2,189 total movements were recorded across 465 unique aircraft, split between 1,119 arrivals, 1,041 departures, and 29 touch-and-goes. The airport operates around the clock, with flights logged at every hour from 00:00 to 23:59 CST. Traffic builds sharply after 06:00, reaching a daily peak at 11:00 with 144 movements in that hour. A secondary concentration appears between 13:00 and 18:00, where hourly totals consistently run above 115. The average across all hours is 30.4 flights. The busiest single route by far connects MEX to Jorge Jiménez Cantú National Airport (AZP), accounting for 290 total movements, 287 of which are logged as arrivals. Monterrey (MTY) ranks second with 136 movements, while General Felipe Ángeles International (NLU) shows a heavy directional imbalance: 106 departures against only 4 arrivals. Houston (IAH), Chicago O'Hare (ORD), and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) are the top three U.S. destinations. Approach directions are distributed across multiple quadrants, with NW (157), ENE (155), SE (134), and WNW (128) leading. Departures skew strongly northward, with N accounting for 292 of the 1,041 recorded. Altitude data reflects the airport's elevation of 7,316 feet. The densest ADS-B point concentrations appear in the 8,000 to 10,000-foot range, with 71,685 points logged in the 8,000 to 9,000-foot band alone, consistent with the terminal environment around a high-altitude field. Cruise-level traffic clusters between 36,000 and 39,000 feet. The highest recorded altitude was 46,925 feet on a departure covering 181.5 nautical miles in 32.1 minutes. The longest flight reached 2,875.1 nautical miles over 342.7 minutes. Of the 465 unique aircraft, 248 carry country code XX, while 175 are U.S.-registered. The full dataset comprises 724,077 ADS-B position points and a combined flight distance of 712,549.9 nautical miles.