Monterrey International Airport guide

Monterrey International Airport opened on November 25, 1970, replacing the smaller Del Norte International Airport, whose single runway could no longer handle the city's growing traffic. Its formal name, General Mariano Escobedo International Airport, honors the 19th-century general born in Nuevo León, though most travelers and its operator use the shorter Monterrey International Airport. Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte (OMA), headquartered in nearby San Pedro Garza García, operates the airport, which sits in the municipality of Apodaca and is the largest single airport in OMA's 13-airport network across central and northern Mexico.

Traffic reached 15.6 million passengers in 2025, up 15 percent on the year before and enough to rank Monterrey as the fourth-busiest airport in the country. That growth has pushed demand past the terminal buildings' original design capacity.

Two asphalt runways serve the airfield: a 3,000-metre main runway and a shorter 1,801-metre crosswind runway, at an elevation of 390 metres. OMA is committing MX$8 billion between 2026 and 2030 to lift capacity past 18 million annual passengers, positioning the airport as a primary aviation hub for northern Mexico.