General Heriberto Jara International Airport or Veracruz International Airport is an international airport located in

Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

, Mexico. It handles national and international air traffic.

Expansion and renovation works

The airport has been recently renovated and expanded in order to meet the growing demand. Some improvements have been added, such as the construction of new hallways inside the terminal to accommodate a larger number of passengers, so that the airport can handle the operations of larger aircraft, such as the

Boeing 757 The Boeing 757 is an American narrow-body airliner designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The then-named 7N7, a twinjet successor for the 727 (a trijet), received its first orders in August 1978. The prototype completed its mai ...

. The terminal exterior and interior have also been renovated, with a completely new architectural style.

General Information

In 2020, the airport handled 721,159 passengers, and 1,103,460 in 2021. The airport is located at the outskirts of the city of

, in a place known as "Las Bajadas". The airport is named after General

Heriberto Jara Corona General Heriberto Jara Corona (July 10, 1879 – April 17, 1968) was a Mexican revolutionary and politician who served as Governor of Veracruz. Heriberto Jara was born in the town of Nogales, in the state of Veracruz, to Emilio Jara Andrade a ...

, once

Governor of Veracruz The governor, according to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave in Mexico, the Executive Power is invested in one individual, called "''Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign Sta ...

, from 1924 to 1927.

Facilities

* Number of gates: 11 * Contact positions: 11 * Number of jetways: 3 * Number of baggage claiming carousels: 6 (''4 domestic, 2 international'') * Customs (''Arrivals area'') * Taxi & car rentals (''Arrivals area'') *

Duty Free A duty-free shop (or store) is a retail outlet whose goods are exempt from the payment of certain local or national taxes and duties, on the requirement that the goods sold will be sold to travelers who will take them out of the country, who ...

Caral VIP Lounge
* Parking area

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Destinations map

Statistics

Passengers

Busiest routes

Accidents and incidents

On 2 April 1981,

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A N258M of Sky Train Air was written off in an accident while taxiing.

References

External links

Veracruz Intl. Airport
Airports in Veracruz Veracruz (city) Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command in Central America Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces {{Mexico-airport-stub