Miami (MIA) Airport

Miami International Airport MIA is Florida's primary, and one of the country's major Airports, and is gateway to the Caribbean, Latin America, & Europe and occupies an area of 3,230 acres near the City of Miami. It is one of the fastest-growing Airports in the U.S. and is also among America's 10 best Airports.  Its public art project was selected as being 'Among the Nation's Best'.

The Airport is located nine miles northwest of Miami, in south-east Florida, and is accessible via I-95 South (exit: State Road 112). It is the third-busiest airport in the U.S.  Note that the Turnpike from Exit 1 to Exit 41 within Miami-Dade County no longer accepts cash payments, but now requires the SunPass or uses the toll-by-plate system, which takes a photo of the license plate and mails the owner a bill. For more information call 1-800-749-PIKE.

With four long runways and an estimated 39.5 million passengers in 2012, Miami Airport is a major hub for American Airlines, and is host to a multitude of domestic and international airlines and charters offering direct and connecting flights to all points of the globe.  What's more, the airport serves close to half a million passengers each week with destinations on the North and South American Continent and Europe. 

Airline news: 1. While LAN airline serves Miami Airport with all of its five affiliated LAN carriers (Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Peru Colombia) - LAN is completing takeover of TAM airline and will then fly under new name 'LATAM'.   2. Low-cost airline InterJet offers daily non-stops to Mexico City.   3. American Airlines offers  nonstops to Barcelona, Spain.  3. Brazilian low-cost GOL airline, which presently offers daily service to  Sao Paulo.  4. Dutch Antilles Express DAE offers flights to Curacao.

Note: Miami Airport can now to serve as port of entry for flights to/from Cuba (but still restricted to 'purposeful' travel - passengers need to be either close relatives of Cuban residents, or be involved in the medical or agricultural business sectors, or travel for educational or religious purposes.  Interjet  offers flights to Guatemala and Cuba.

The on-airport Miami International Airport Hotel has conference rooms on Concourse E, level 7 (305-871-4100).

The Terminal complex at Miami Airport includes 3 passenger terminals, arranged in a semi-circle, with North, Central & South Terminals surrounding the parking areas. The Skyride Connector - a moving walkway on level 3 - connects all three terminals (with 4 stops inside Conourse D) and parking areas. (For more information please refer to 'Terminal Maps' page.)

Parking options at Miami Airport include a cell phone lot,  short-term parking garage in front of Concourse E, and 2 seven-story parking garages (Dolphin and Flamingo) located within the terminal's curvature and connected to the terminal via overhead walkways on Level 3.  Parking choices include Valet Parking (across from Concourses B&C), Short- & Long-term parking, and the Economy Park & Ride surface lot.  (For more parking information pleasrefer to 'Airport Parking' page.)

The 4-level consolidated Rental Car Center ('RCC") is one mile east of MIA Airport on 3900 NW 5th Streeet.  All on-Airport, and most off-Airport rental car agencies operate now out of RCC. On level 4 is a spacious customer service lobby with 16 rental car counters. The new elevated 'MIA Mover' train (similar to Skytrain at the North Terminal), running on a dual 1.25-mile track, connects the Terminal Complex to RCC, and later to Miami's intermodal transportation center, or 'MIC' (now under construction).
 
To get from Miami Airport to your destination you have the option of renting a car, taking a taxi or limo, shared-ride or hotel shuttles, or public transportation.  The passenger terminal, ground level, has a computerized transit information kiok in the bus waiting room, or call a transit information agent at 305-891-3131. Also Metrobus route maps and schedules can be picked up at the Information Center in Central Terminal E, level 2, and a system map on the wall and Tri-Rail schedules are in the ground-level waiting room.
1. The Airport Flyer, Route 150, is an express bus running daily between the Airport and Miami Beach. It runs daily directly to 41st Street & Alton Rd., then south on Collins Ave. to 16th St. 6am-11pm, and only stops at the Earnington Heights Metrorail station.  The bus has luggage racks.
2. Local bus service is provided by Metrobus routes 37, 42, 57, J, East-West Connection and Airport Tri-Rail Station Shuttle (the first five routes have service to the Metrorail) throughout Miami-Dade County; Metrobus & Metrorail serve Miami Central Station. MIA's bus station is on the ground level of Concourse E, across from Customs.
3. At the new Miami Metrorail Station - reached by Bus route 7 - you can now catch the new Metrorail's elevated Orange Line which gets you to the Dadeland South Metrorail Station;  on the next stop, at Earlington Heights station, you can connect to the Metrorail's Green Line, (near the intersection of SR 112, Airport Expressway & NW 22nd Avenue). For detailed information, open:  miamidade.gov/transit/riding-metrorail.asp#1
4. Metrorail's mass transit provides direct local transport throughout Miami-Dade County, while
5. the MIA Move,  -an automated electric fixed-rail system -  located on level 3 between Dolphin & Flamingo Garages (use moving walkways) connects between MIA and Central Station.
6. Tri-Rail (tel. 1-800-TRI-RAIL, is a commuter train running along I-95 from Broward & Palm Beach Counties. Its Airport Station is for the next 2 years closed -  instead, the southern terminus of rail service will be the Hialeah Market Station, which will provide transport to/from Miami Airport through this station. For more information visit:  tri-rail.com/bulletins.htm#list24.

Future Airport Developments:  The Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is nearing completion, delivering a pratically new airport. The 5-year old South Terminal and the new North terminal now amount to an estimated 95 percent of the Airport's passengers.  By Fall of 2013, MIC (Miami Intermodal Center transporation hub), will provide passenger access to all modes of ground transportation, Metrorail & Metrobus service, TriRail  (operating at Miami-Dade, Broward & Palm Beach counties), Amtrak and taxi & other private transportation means.

• Address:
  1640 Nw 42nd Ave
  Miami, FL 33142
  United States
• Website for Miami: http://www.miami-airport.com
• Email Address: customerservice@miami-airport.com
• Phone: (305) 876 7000
• View Terminal Map