NLU
Felipe Ángeles International Airport
Felipe Ángeles International Airport (IATA: NLU, ICAO: MMSM) is a large airport in Mexico City, México (state), Mexico. It opened on 21 Mar 2022. It has 3 runways; the longest is 4,500 m (14,764 ft). It is operated by Secretariat of National Defense. In 2025 it handled 7.1 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 2022–202221 MAR 2022
OpenedFelipe Ángeles International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap04L/22R045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH4,500 m14,764 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEPaved
04C/22C045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH4,500 m14,764 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEPaved
04R/22L045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2022–2025912K
2.6M
6.3M
7.1M
22232425
Routes
68 destinations · 15 countriesYear-round44
BJXGuanajuato International AirportMexico · Viva292 km181 miVERGeneral Heriberto Jara International AirportMexico · Viva304 km189 miTAMGeneral Francisco Javier Mina International AirportMexico · Viva307 km191 miACAGeneral Juan N. Álvarez International AirportMexico · Viva341 km212 miSLPPonciano Arriaga International AirportMexico · Viva344 km214 miZIHIxtapa-Zihuatanejo International AirportMexico · Viva351 km218 miOAXXoxocotlán International AirportMexico · Viva389 km242 miAGUAguascalientes International AirportMexico · Viva407 km253 miCVMGeneral Pedro Jose Mendez International AirportMexico · Aerus440 km273 miGDLGuadalajara International AirportMexico · Volaris, Viva457 km284 miPXMPuerto Escondido International AirportMexico · Viva476 km296 miHUXBahías de Huatulco International AirportMexico · Viva529 km329 miIZTGeneral Antonio Cárdenas Rodríguez National Airport / Ixtepec Air BaseMexico · Aerus553 km344 miZLOPlaya de Oro International AirportMexico · Viva585 km364 miTPQAmado Nervo National AirportMexico · Viva635 km395 miPVRPuerto Vallarta International AirportMexico · Viva659 km409 miSLWPlan de Guadalupe International AirportMexico · Viva673 km418 miMTYMonterrey International AirportMexico · Viva680 km423 miVSACarlos Rovirosa Pérez International AirportMexico · Viva680 km423 miMAMGeneral Servando Canales International AirportMexico · Viva687 km427 miREXGeneral Lucio Blanco International AirportMexico · Viva701 km436 miTGZAngel Albino Corzo International AirportMexico · Viva725 km450 miTRCFrancisco Sarabia Tinoco International AirportMexico · Viva788 km490 miMZTGeneral Rafael Buelna International AirportMexico · Viva841 km523 miNLDQuetzalcóatl International AirportMexico · Viva858 km533 miMIDManuel Crescencio Rejón International AirportMexico · Volaris, Viva986 km613 miCULBachigualato Federal International AirportMexico · Volaris, Viva1,034 km642 miCTMChetumal International AirportMexico · Viva1,131 km703 miSJDLos Cabos International AirportMexico · Volaris, Viva1,171 km728 miTQOFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport TulumMexico · Viva1,187 km738 miCUUGeneral Roberto Fierro Villalobos International AirportMexico · Viva1,219 km757 miLAPManuel Márquez de León International AirportMexico · Volaris, Viva1,265 km786 miCUNCancún International AirportMexico · Volaris, Viva1,273 km791 miCENCiudad Obregón International AirportMexico · Viva1,391 km864 miCJSAbraham González International AirportMexico · Volaris, Viva1,516 km942 miHMOGeneral Ignacio L. Pesqueira International AirportMexico · Viva1,600 km994 miHAVJosé Martí International AirportCuba · Viva1,756 km1,091 miTIJGeneral Abelardo L. Rodriguez International AirportMexico · Volaris, Viva2,282 km1,418 miCTGRafael Nuñez International AirportColombia · Viva2,723 km1,692 miMDEJose Maria Córdova International AirportColombia · Viva2,962 km1,841 miSDQLas Américas International AirportDominican Republic · Arajet3,083 km1,916 miBOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Volaris, Viva3,170 km1,970 miPUJPunta Cana International AirportDominican Republic · Arajet3,218 km2,000 miCCSMaiquetía Simón Bolívar International AirportVenezuela · Conviasa3,577 km2,223 miCargo27
GDLGuadalajara International AirportMexico · Lufthansa Cargo, DHL Aviation457 km284 miMTYMonterrey International AirportMexico · Lufthansa Cargo680 km423 miGUALa Aurora International AirportGuatemala · DHL Aviation1,068 km664 miIAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · Atlas Air1,197 km744 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · Lufthansa Cargo1,476 km917 miMIAMiami International AirportUnited States · Atlas Air2,032 km1,263 miHSVHuntsville International AirportUnited States · Atlas Air2,047 km1,272 miSDFLouisville Muhammad Ali International AirportUnited States · UPS Airlines2,416 km1,501 miLAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · Awesome Cargo, DHL Aviation2,481 km1,542 miINDIndianapolis International AirportUnited States · Atlas Air, MSC Air Cargo2,532 km1,573 miCVGCincinnati Northern Kentucky International AirportUnited States · DHL Aviation, Atlas Air2,550 km1,584 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · Lufthansa Cargo, Atlas Air2,685 km1,668 miMDEJose Maria Córdova International AirportColombia · Atlas Air2,962 km1,841 miUIOMariscal Sucre International AirportEcuador · Atlas Air3,154 km1,960 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Air Canada Cargo3,214 km1,997 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Lufthansa Cargo3,335 km2,072 miYULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Canada Cargo3,681 km2,287 miYHZHalifax / Stanfield International AirportCanada · Atlas Air4,295 km2,669 miANCTed Stevens Anchorage International AirportUnited States · Atlas Air, MSC Air Cargo6,053 km3,761 miHNLDaniel K. Inouye International AirportUnited States · Atlas Air6,100 km3,790 miSCLComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International AirportChile · Atlas Air6,624 km4,116 miZAZZaragoza AirportSpain · Atlas Air9,196 km5,714 miLGGLiège AirportBelgium · Atlas Air, MSC Air Cargo9,292 km5,774 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa Cargo9,521 km5,916 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Cargo11,357 km7,057 miHGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · MasAir Cargo Mexico13,037 km8,101 miCGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · Awesome Cargo13,052 km8,110 miMost destinationsViva 39Atlas Air 14Volaris 10Lufthansa Cargo 6DHL Aviation 4MSC Air Cargo 3
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NLU. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Felipe Ángeles International Airport” (revision of 17 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record