By KELIN DILLON Almost a year and a half after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded Mexico’s airspace safety ranking from a Category One to Category Two, Mexico’s enduring airspace troubles are only set to continue as the United States is expected to hold fast to not allowing any new Mexican aircraft into its borders until Mexico can earn
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By MARK LORENZANA Foreign direct Investment (FDI) in Mexico had a strong annual growth of 49.2 percent in the first half of this year, helping the country accumulate $27.5 billion, according to preliminary figures from Mexico’s Economy Secretariat. According to a statement by the Secretariat of the Economy, the figure reflects “extraordinary movements, related to the merger of Televisa with
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON Just one month after the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency reaffirmed its year-long ranking of Mexico’s airspace as a Category 2, maintaining Mexican airlines’ prohibition from opening new routes in the United States and continuing limitations in their services operations, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) revealed on Wednesday, July 27, that the second terminal of
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By KELIN DILLON Following repeated controversies over Mexico’s airspace operations, which culminated in the Mexican government announcing on May 11 its intention to move 204 flights from the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) to the newly-built Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), leading Mexican airline Aeroméxico has sought to challenge the nation’s purported “favoritism” toward the AIFA over the AICM through
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By MARK LORENZANA Flights between Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela operated by Línea Aérea Conviasa — the flagship carrier and largest airline of Venezuela — and Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) in Mexico City have not been registered, despite thousands of Venezuelan nationals arriving there since March. Although there have already been three Conviasa flights from Caracas,
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By KELIN DILLON Less than one month after the Mexican government announced the movement of 204 flights from the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) to the newly constructed Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), the AIFA is already registering considerable problems with its new operations systems. While the government intended to reduce the AICM’s operations by 25 percent, some national airlines,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what critics have called an unabashed attempt to force airlines to use the newly inaugurated, but poorly received, Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, May 2, announced that it will restrict incoming and outgoing flights at Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s new, three-runway Felipe Ángeles International Airport is set to open on Monday, March 21, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador AMLO) doing the ribbon-cutting honors. The airport, one of AMLO’s key vanity megaprojects, will have four confirmed carriers operating, the Mexican lines, Volaris, Viva Aerobus and Aeroméxico, plus the Venezuelan carrier Conviasa, which
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) is set to be inaugurated with great fanfare by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, March 21, the initial takeoff of its operations will be extremely limited, with just12 daily flights from three airlines, while the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) that it is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The value of stocks in Mexico’s official airlines, Aeroméxico, plunged by 29 percent, to just .41 pesos per unit, on Wednesday, March 16 — their lowest price ever — as the company began the final steps to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Aeroméxico won a U.S. court permission to emerge from Chapter 11 in
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