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An airport on the US-Mexico border has become one of only a few in the world spanning two countries with the opening of an aerial pedestrian bridge connecting terminals on both sides.




Cross Border Xpress (CBX),[4] also referred to as the Tijuana Cross-border Terminal and the Puerta de las Californias, is an airport terminal located in San Diego, California, United States, with an access bridge connecting it to the Tijuana International Airport in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It opened on December 9, 2015.[5][1] It is the world's first true binational airport passenger terminal. Unlike the EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg, which is entirely in France although jointly administered with Switzerland, this terminal is physically located in the United States while serving the Tijuana airport. A pedestrian bridge spans the United States–Mexico border, connecting passenger terminals between the two countries. It was the creation of Ralph Nieders, who introduced the concept and infrastructure design in Mexico City and San Diego in 1990.[6][7] The terminal, in the Otay Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, allows passengers to check in on the U.S. side of the U.S.–Mexico border, cross a 390 feet (120 m) pedestrian/passenger bridge across the border, and catch their flights at the Tijuana International Airport. Passengers arriving in Tijuana are equally able to cross the pedestrian/passenger bridge into the Otay Mesa passenger terminal, clear U.S. passport controls and U.S. Customs, and exit on the U.S. side.[8][9]

The terminal building in Otay Mesa serves only as a check-in and processing facility for departing and arriving passengers. It has its own parking, check-in stations, and customs offices, but no gates or arrival facilities (thus functionally resembling Hong Kong International Airport's Terminal 2). The structural scheme is intended to allow greater access to flights out of Tijuana Airport for both domestic and international air carriers.[10]
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