Terminal Aérea metro station^{[lower-alpha 1]} is a Mexico City Metro station next to the Mexico City International Airport in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, served by Line 5 (the Yellow Line), between Oceanía and Hangares stations. The station serves colonias (neighborhoods) of Peñón de los Baños and Moctezuma 2ª sección.

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Terminal Aérea
STC rapid transit
Station sign, 2006
General information
Location	Puerto Aéreo Boulevard Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°26′01″N 99°05′16″W
Owned by	Government of Mexico City
Operated by	Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)	(Politécnico – Pantitlán)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Mexico City International Airport Aerotrén Terminal 1 Routes: 43, 200 Trolleybus Line 4: Terminal Aérea Route: 20-B
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	19 December 1981
Passengers
2023	5,718,207[1]  0.15%
Rank	79/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Oceanía toward Politécnico Line 5 Hangares toward Pantitlán Out-of-system transfer (airplane passengers only) Preceding station Aerotrén Following station Terminus Aerotrén transfer at Terminal 1 Terminal 2 Terminus
Route map Legend Politécnico Instituto del Petróleo Autobuses del Norte La Raza Misterios Valle Gómez Consulado Eduardo Molina Aragón Oceanía Terminal Aérea Hangares Pantitlán This diagram: view talk edit
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Terminal Aérea Location within Mexico City
Area map and exits

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Terminal Aérea metro station was opened on 19 December 1981, on the first day of the then Consulado–Pantitlán service. The station's pictogram features an airliner and a control tower, and its name is on account of its proximity to the check-in areas at Terminal 1 of the Mexico City International Airport. There are six murals painted by David Lach inside the station. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 18,389 passengers, making it the 96th busiest station in the network and the fourth busiest of the line.

Terminal Aérea is a metro station on Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, in Venustiano Carranza borough, in eastern Mexico City,^[3] 200 meters (660 ft) away from Mexico City International Airport Terminal 1, Gate A.^[4][5] On their Policy Review of Mexico, the OECD criticized the station for not having proper signage and for not being designed for first-time travelers as they "must negotiate over 110 steps" to reach it.^[6] Terminal Aérea also serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Peñón de los Baños and Moctezuma 2ª sección in the Venustiano Carranza borough.^[7] Within the system, the station lies between Oceanía and Hangares stations.^[7]

The area is serviced by Terminal 1 Metrobús station (Line 4), Line 4 (formerly Line G) of the trolleybus system,^[7] Routes 43 and 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network,^[8] by Route 20-B of the city's public bus system,^[9] and the airport's Aerotrén.^[10]

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA;^[11] Terminal Aérea metro station was opened on 19 December 1981, on the first day of the then Consulado–Pantitlán service.^[12] Terminal Aérea metro station was built underground,^[13] with Santo Tomás marble floors, travertine marble walls, and rustic-textured stucco plafond. Inside, there are six murals^[11] and the station logo represents an airliner in front of a control tower.^[7]

Between the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea interstation, which is 1,174 meters (3,852 ft) long,^[14] the track goes from the street level to the underground one,^[11] and when it was opened the track had a 4.9% slope.^[15] For the Terminal Aérea–Hangares interstation tunnel, slurry walls were built using the Milan method,^[11] and it is 1,153 meters (3,783 ft) long.^[14][16]

Near Terminal Aérea station, in Peñon de los Baños, workers found the remains of mammoths, bison, horses, camels, birds, and fishes, as well as a Teotihuacan settlement.^[17]

Before the station was built, Mexico City International Airport was serviced by Aeropuerto station on Line 1 (the Pink line), located 15 blocks away.^[18] After Terminal Aérea metro station was built, people still got off Aeropuerto due to the confusing name and pictogram, an airliner silhouette.^[19][20] It was until 1997 that the station was renamed "Boulevard Puerto Aéreo" and the logo was replaced with a pictogram of a bridge with a dome below, in reference to local features.^[21]

Terminal Aérea station has six murals painted by Mexican artist David Lach in 1981, becoming the first person to do it inside the Mexico City Metro.^[35] Four murals, titled Paisajes cálidos y fríos,^[36] are located at the platform's headwalls (Cálidos in the southern walls and Fríos in the northern walls).^[11] According to Lach, the red and green colors represent direction and temperature.^[37] The other two murals are located in the lobby and are titled Tlaltilco (east lobby) and Cuitzeo (west lobby).^[11][36] They represent a mixture of the pre-Columbian era with contemporary Mexico.^[35]

A pedestrian bridge nicknamed "MacPuente" is located near the station. People use it as an improvised observation deck to see the landing and take-off of airplanes.^[38][39]