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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

California’s newest airport terminal extends to Mexico

Vehicles pass under a walking bridge that connects the new Cross Border Xpress air terminal in San Diego, right, to the Tijuana International Airport, left, in this file photo taken in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 25, 2015. The new terminal is scheduled to begin operations on Wednesday, Dec.09,2015
Vehicles pass under a walking bridge that connects 

The U.S.—Mexico border is one of the world’s most fortified international divides. Starting Wednesday,Dec 09,2015 it will also be one of the only ones that has an airport straddling two countries.

An investor group that includes Chicago billionaire Sam Zell built a sleek terminal in San Diego with a bridge that crosses a razor-wire border fence to Tijuana’s decades-old airport. Passengers pay $18 to walk a 119-metre overpass to Tijuana International Airport, a springboard for about 30 Mexican destinations.

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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

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