Felipe Ángeles International Airport (IATA: NLU, ICAO: MMSM) is the second civilian airport serving the Mexico City metropolitan area, opened on March 21, 2022. It is located in Zumpango, State of Mexico, north-northeast of the historic center of Mexico City by car. Originally called Santa Lucía Airport (Mexican Air Force base no. 1), it was renamed after Felipe Ángeles (a general in the Mexican Revolution) in early 2021. In Spanish, its initialism is AIFA. Construction started on October 17, 2019 after all judicial suspensions against the project were revoked. Two runways and a new terminal were planned during the first phase, which was completed on March 21, 2022, as scheduled. The airport is owned by the Mexican Government and operated by the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) (through a subsidiary). By territorial extension it is the largest airport in the State of Mexico and the second largest airport in the country behind Cancun International Airport. History Background The Santa Lucía Air Base was partially inaugurated in 1952, due to the need to relocate the Balbuena Military Air Field. The aerodrome was inaugurated on November 24, 1952, during the presidency of Miguel Alemán Valdés; however, the aircraft that still operated in Balbuena moved to Santa Lucía until 1959. It came to have a runway 3,780 meters long and 75 meters wide, which at the time was the widest paved runway in the country. Mexico and was named "General Alfredo Lezama Álvarez" in honor of who was its commander from 1961 to 1964. In March 2018, as part of his campaign for the presidency, then-candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed the privatization of the Mexico City Texcoco Airport or the expansion of the Santa Lucía air base to convert it into an airport, finally leaning towards the latter. In the first half of October 2018, López Obrador, already as president-elect, called for a popular consultation organized by the Arturo Rosenblueth Foundation and a group of citizens. The consultation was met with some controversy. In 2014, a law was enacted that institutes as a form of citizen participation, and the process that was carried out was a survey carried out by an individual and without official validity, where those who participated in this process could choose if they preferred to continue with the construction of the NAICM or interrupt it. The result favored the construction of Santa Lucía, 310,463 people (29% of the