Quetzalcóatl International Airport (, es, Aeropuerto Internacional Quetzalcóatl, ), also known as Nuevo Laredo International Airport (), is an international airport located in

Nuevo Laredo Nuevo Laredo () is a city in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The city lies on the banks of the Rio Grande, across from Laredo, United States. The 2010 census population of the city was 373,725. Nuevo Lar ...

Tamaulipas Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. It is situated near the U.S.-Mexico border, opposite Laredo,

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

and handles national and international air traffic for the city of Nuevo Laredo. It is operated by

Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares (ASA) is a Mexican Federal Government-owned corporation with its own equity capital and legal identity. It has its headquarters in Mexico City in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It was set up in June 1965 to ov ...

, a federal government-owned corporation. In 2020, the airport handled 28,891 passengers, and in 2021 it handled 53,921 passengers.

History

Quetzalcóatl International Airport was named after Quetzalcoatl from the

Aztec Religion The Aztec religion is a monistic pantheism in which the Nahua concept of was construed as the supreme god , as well as a diverse pantheon of lesser gods and manifestations of nature. The popular religion tended to embrace the mythological and ...

who was a benefactor god, considered a leader among the deities, that would return after his departure to take back the empire. Mexicana used to fly to Mexico City and Guadalajara before it ceased operations in 2010.

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Nuevo Laredo Intl. Airport
Airports in Tamaulipas Nuevo Laredo {{Mexico-airport-stub

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