Mexico City airport flights hit for second day due to torrential rains

Around 20,000 passengers person been affected by formation cancellations, delays and rerouting.

Torrential rains person forced Mexico City’s main airdrome to suspend galore flights for aggregate hours for a 2nd consecutive day, causing chaos successful 1 of Latin America’s busiest question hubs.

Authorities astatine Benito Juarez International Airport said connected Tuesday that each runways were operating again by midday, aft each flights were suspended for astatine slightest 4 hours earlier that day. Around 20,000 passengers were affected by formation cancellations, delays and rerouting.

The Mexican superior is experiencing 1 of its heaviest rainy seasons successful years, starring to changeless flooding successful different parts of the city.

Passengers person reported galore cancellations and delays this week arsenic dense rains autumn connected the capital.

Alicia Nicanor, 69, said her Sunday formation to the bluish metropolis of Tijuana was cancelled, and erstwhile she returned Tuesday greeting for her aboriginal greeting flight, it was besides cancelled.

Vehicles navigate flooding adjacent Benito Juarez International Airport successful Mexico City connected August 12, 2025  [Fernando Llano/AP Photo]

“I told them I person to spell due to the fact that I person an important assignment with my doctor, but they didn’t listen,” she said.

Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said dense rains connected Sunday flooded the city’s main plaza, known arsenic the Zocalo, with much than 76mm (3 inches) of water, overmuch of which poured down successful conscionable 20 minutes. It broke a grounds acceptable successful 1952.

Meanwhile, videos from the city’s southbound showed cars floating connected flooded streets. The flooding has fuelled disapproval by immoderate successful the capital, who telephone it a motion of larger infrastructure failures by the city’s government.