page_title: San Diego–Tijuana
section_title: Airports
hierarchical_section_title: San Diego–Tijuana / Transportation / Airports
caption_attribution_description: Español: fachada principal del aeropuerto
context_page_description: San Diego–Tijuana is an international transborder agglomeration, straddling the border of the adjacent North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The 2012 population of the region was 4,922,723, making it the largest bi-national conurbation shared between the United States and Mexico, the third-largest shared between the US and another country, and the fourth-largest in the world. In its entirety, the region consists of San Diego County in the United States and the municipalities of Tijuana, Rosarito Beach, and Tecate in Mexico. It is the third most populous region in the California–Baja California region, smaller only than the metropolitan areas of Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.
  The largest centers of the urban area maintain global city status and as a whole the metropolitan region is host to 13 consulates from Asian, European, North American, Oceanian, and South American nations. Over fifty million people cross the border each year between Tijuana and San Diego, giving the region the busiest land-border crossing in the world.
context_section_description: San Diego–Tijuana is the home base of two major international airports: the San Diego International Airport (Lindbergh Field) and Tijuana International Airport (General Abelardo L. Rodríguez), and McClellan-Palomar Airport (Carlsbad).
  San Diego International Airport is located 3 mi (4.8 km) northwest of Centre City and 20 mi (32 km) from Tijuana. Operated by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the San Diego International airport is the second busiest single-runway commercial airport in the world, behind only London Gatwick. SAN has approximately 600 departures and arrivals, carrying 50,000 passengers, each day. As of October 2010, San Diego International Airport is served by 20 passenger airlines.
  In 2010 the Tijuana International Airport served 3,649,500 passengers. It is the fifth busiest airport in Mexico and serves as the focus city for Aeroméxico including flights to Shanghai, China. Cross Border Xpress consists of a pedestrian toll bridge which directly links the terminal in Mexico with the CBX terminal on the U.S. side – the only airport in the world with terminals on the territory of two countries.
  McClellan-Palomar Airport is located near the central business district of Carlsbad, serving North County.
  The top ten flights in 2010 and 2009 from all three airports were to San Francisco with 737,000 passengers, Phoenix with 618,000 passengers, Denver with 571,000 passengers, Los Angeles with approximately 408,000 passengers, Chicago with 402,000 passengers, Dallas with 394,000 passengers, Guadalajara with 382,429, Oakland with 380,000 passengers, Las Vegas with 375,000 passengers, and Mexico City with 358,241.
  In 2008 it was reported that construction will begin on Ensenada International Airport along the Tijuana-Ensenada Scenic Tollway, between La Mision and El Suazal. The airport is intended to serve Greater Ensenada, Rosarito Beach Municipality, and the westernmost borough of Tijuana. The airport will have a 12,000-foot (3,700 m) runway and will be capable of serving Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s. Service is being planned to Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai, Frankfurt, Bogotá, among other large transit hubs. The bankers group of investors for Ensenada International Airport are from all over the globe maintaining residency in Canada, the United States and Europe. In addition to serving as a new domestic transportation hub, the main customer for the new international airport is going to be the air package delivery company DHL.
caption: Front of Tijuana International Airport
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