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    San Diego to Tijuana skywalk opens

    San Diego to Tijuana skywalk opens



    December 9, 2015

    San Diego, California – Beginning December 9, the U.S. – Mexico border at San Diego and Tijuana will share the first and only airport that straddles two countries.

    The project has been in the works since 2005, when an investor group proposed to build a sleek terminal in San Diego with a walkway bridge that would cross over the Mexican border and into the country’s Tijuana airport.

    The project is now complete and set for opening on December 9 when passengers will be able to walk the 390-foot overpass from San Diego to the Tijuana International Airport.

    Passengers making the walk will have to pay $18 US. The target market is the estimated 2.6 million Tijuana passengers who come to the United States each year. Up until now, Tijuana passengers made the drive to a congested land crossing where they waited hours to enter San Diego by car or by foot.

    The new airport bridge is a five-minute walk to a US border inspector. The only other cross-border airport known to industry experts is in the European Union between Basel, Switzerland, and France’s Upper Rhine region, but it carries none of the political freight of San Diego and Tijuana.

    The terminal is one of the last works by the late Ricardo Legorreta, whose bold colors helped bring Mexican modernism to a world stage. The stone exterior of the new pedestrian overpass mixes purple stucco and red limestone that takes on a deep, inky hue when it rains. Stone gardens sprout agave and other desert plants. Passengers enter a courtyard with a reflecting pool to an airy building with ticket counters and kiosks. Inside are high, white ceilings accented with large orange circles of recessed lighting.

    Ticketed passengers must carry their luggage across a bridge to border inspectors in the receiving country.

    The skywalk is divided by a center wall that seperates each direction. The privately-held consortium, Otay-Tijuana Venture LLC, is not releasing financial projections but says they expect to make money on a duty-free shop, rental car companies, restaurants and other concessions.

    They say that terminal fees will go largely to pay U.S. border inspector salaries, one of the nation’s few privately-funded ports of entry.

    The $120 million terminal occupies less than half their 55-acre parcel.

    The city of San Diego has also approved a 340-room hotel, shopping center and gas station.

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    Date of article: December 9, 2015
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    Yes I know but thanks for making a note of it.

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    Unique airport facility in Otay Mesa expects to nearly double business by 2018

    January 2, 2017 11:03 AM

    by Audra Stafford

    A one-of-a-kind airport facility in Otay Mesa exceeded all expectations during its first year in business.

    More than 1.3 million people have used Cross Border Xpress, or CBX, since the terminal opened in December 2015. CBX has an enclosed pedestrian bridge that makes it easier for passengers traveling to and from Tijuana International Airport to cross the border.


    “CBX only allows people to access the facility and cross the border if they are passengers, so they’re ticketed passengers, which means they already have the appropriate documentation,” said Elizabeth Brown, Chief Commercial Officer at CBX. “So inherently, this is a very secure border crossing facility because of the types of passengers who are using it,” Brown said.


    The number of passengers using CBX is expected to increase to 1.8 million in 2017, and nearly double by 2018. In order to meet the growing demand, operators are planning to add food and beverage vendors and expand the current parking and rental car facilities.


    “Having a year of operation under our belt makes us far more attractive for businesses to locate here.

    They understand that we will both be able to develop commercially and serve the needs of this customer base, which we now understand is a significantly large number of people that are looking for that,” Brown said.

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    Southwest will fly nonstop to Mexico

    Southwest Airlines says it will start flying nonstop to Los Cabos from San Diego, starting in April

    Lori Weisberg
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    Southwest Airlines announced Tuesday it will start flying to Los Cabos from San Diego in April, marking the airline’s first nonstop service between Lindbergh Field and Mexico.

    The once daily flight to Los Cabos International Airport, which serves the popular tourist towns San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, will start April 25, with booking available beginning Wednesday.


    Southwest will join two other airlines — Alaska and Spirit — that also offer nonstop service to the southern Baja California destination.

    Spirit’s flights are seasonal; not year-round.


    The addition of Los Cabos brings to 31 the number of destinations Southwest will serve from San Diego. It has been regularly expanding service, announcing last week that it would add five nonstop destinations.


    “This month we’ll celebrate our 35-year anniversary with San Diego. It’s a milestone for service with us, and because we’re really striving to be your town’s carrier, the first one you go to when you fly, we want to offer a breadth of service for San Diego,” said Leah Koontz, vice president controller of Southwest Airlines.


    According to the San Diego airport, Southwest is the airport’s largest carrier in terms of passengers, accounting for nearly 38 percent of the passenger volume.


    “Because we’re always trying to find ways to improve our service here, the one thing we couldn’t do was ignore your No. 1 international destination,” Koontz added.


    Southwest declined to release the schedule for the new flight until Wednesday, when bookings can officially start, but officials said departures from San Diego will be mid-morning, with return flights in mid-afternoon.


    The airline said it is likely there will be special introductory fares once the schedule is released but would not say what those fares would be.


    Roundtrip flights in late April between Los Cabos and San Diego on Alaska Airlines can be purchased online for as low as $340.


    Southwest already flies nonstop to the Los Cabos airport from Los Angeles and Orange County and is scheduled to launch nonstop flights next month from Oakland.


    In celebration of the new route, Southwest said it will deploy about 20 of its employees throughout San Diego from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, when it will give out more than 2 million Rapid Rewards points, plus hundreds of Southwest gift cards.


    Southwest’s announcement comes as Tijuana’s A.L. Rodriguez International Airport is adding infrastructure improvements to ease air travel for Americans.


    A little over a year ago, the airport debuted the Cross Border Xpress, a privately operated, enclosed pedestrian bridge connecting Rodriguez with a structure in Otay Mesa that includes airline ticket counters, 850 parking spaces and car rental booths.


    The Tijuana airport, regarded as the second-best connected in Mexico, served nearly 4.4 million passengers in 2014. More than half of the users of the airport cross to or from California.


    Jim Payne, air service analyst for San Diego International Airport (which reported 20 million annual passengers in 2015), said he regarded air service offered by Rodriguez as more complementary to San Diego than competitive.


    He confirmed that Los Cabos is the San Diego airport’s most popular international destination. Mexico, he said, continues to be a very stable market for San Diego and has shown consistent growth.


    “We’re just happy to see additional air service in general,” Payne said, “but this is a first step for Southwest in the international market here, and we’re glad they chose us as an option.”

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