Boulevard Puerto Aéreo metro station

Boulevard Puerto Aéreo is an underground metro station on Line 1 situated along the avenue of the same name and Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in the Colonias (neighborhoods), Moctezuma, Santa Cruz Aviación, and Valentín Gómez Farías, in the Venustiano Carranza borough, eastern Mexico City.^[2][3]

Boulevard Puerto Aéreo metro station has five exits leading to Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and one to Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza. The north and northeast exits serve Colonia Santa Cruz Aviación, while the northwest exit services Colonia Moctezuma. The south and southwest serve Colonia Valentín Gómez Farías along the boulevard, and the southeast entrance serves this neighborhood along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza.^[2] The station offers an accessible service for people with disabilities with elevators and tactile paving.^[4][5]

Within the metro system, the station lies between Balbuena and Gómez Farías.^[2] The area receives service from the adjacent Centro de transferencia modal (CETRAM), the stop's transportation hub, which connects to various transit routes,^[6] Line 4 (formerly Line G) of the trolleybus system,^[2] Route 43 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros bus network,^[7] and Route 20-B of the city's public bus system.^[8]

Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro and Cometro, the latter being a subsidiary of Empresas ICA.^[9] Its first section, where Boulevard Puerto Aéreo metro station is located, was inaugurated on 4 September 1969, operating from Chapultepec to Zaragoza, and opened to the general public the following day.^[10] The tunnel between Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and Gómez Farías spans 611 meters (2,005 ft) in length, while the section towards Balbuena measures 595 meters (1,952 ft).^[11]

In 2016, the station received renovation works that included repairs to ticket offices, floors, walls, ceilings, electrical installations, lighting, paging system and video surveillance system.^[12]

The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line.^[13][14] After fifteen months of renovations, authorities reopened Boulevard Puerto Aéreo station on 29 October 2023.^[15] Excélsior reported in July 2024 that all the modernized stations had leaks of varying severity, with water seepage detected in the walls of Boulevard Puerto Aéreo metro station, resulting in constant runoff into the drains. This issue left damp marks and affected the facilities. Authorities had previously stated that these leaks would be sealed during the 2022 modernization works.^[16]

Name and pictogram

Originally, Boulevard Puerto Aéreo was named Aeropuerto due to its proximity – approximately 15 blocks – to Mexico City International Airport,^[17] and its pictogram displayed an airliner. In 1981, Terminal Aérea station on Line 5 (Yellow Line) was built closer to the airport. Despite this, confusion persisted as passengers continued to alight at Aeropuerto station because of its name and pictogram.^[18][19] It was until 1997 that Aeropuerto metro station was renamed "Boulevard Puerto Aéreo" and its pictogram was replaced with an image depicting a road bridge with a dome beneath it, symbolizing a nearby air vent designed to prevent street garbage from entering the platforms.^[20]

According to official data, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station recorded between 22,800 and 26,500 average daily entries from 2016 to 2019. In 2025, it recorded 5,919,006 passenger entries, ranking 81st among the system's 195 stations.^[1]