General Abelardo L. Rodriguez International Airport guide

Tijuana International Airport, ICAO code MMTJ, sits on the Mexican side of the border with California, about 5 kilometres from downtown Tijuana. It opened in 1951 as the Aeropuerto Federal de Tijuana and Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico operates it today. The airport serves the Tijuana and San Diego region, home to roughly 5 million people.

Traffic reached about 12.65 million passengers in 2025, which made it one of the five busiest airports in Mexico. Volaris uses Tijuana as a hub and serves around 35 domestic destinations. Viva, Aeroméxico and Mexicana de Aviación also fly to Mexican cities, and Hainan Airlines links the airport with Beijing. Most flights are domestic.

The airport is best known for Cross Border Xpress, a pedestrian bridge about 120 metres long that opened in December 2015. It joins the terminal to a building in Otay Mesa, San Diego, so travellers with a boarding pass can walk across the border and skip the road crossing. The bridge carried about 4 million passengers in 2025. A single 2,960-metre runway, 09/27, handles all flights.