In their pursuit of catering to status-conscious travelers, airlines have inadvertently, or some would say intentionally, prolonged the boarding process, causing unnecessary delays
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Air Travel By CHANA PERMAN Ma’am, your passport expired yesterday How did you not see? And why are you at the airport? Your flight is in a week We need to dispose of this cream, next time check our website The weather has become treacherous You can only fly tonight Time for passengers to deplane You can book another flight
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By MARK LORENZANA Several experts in the Mexican aviation industry on Tuesday, July 26, expressed concern for the continued deterioration of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), as another aviation analyst lamented the U.S. downgrade of Mexico’s air safety rating in 2021, which he believed does not bode well for the country’s airline industry in the long term. Aviation analyst
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By MARK LORENZANA Passengers continue to encounter problems at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), chief among them late arrivals, long wait times for checked luggage, delays at customs, lack of water and, now, the banning of ride-hailing applications. In addition to these problems, as of May 25, 2021, the AICM was downgraded to category 2 from category 1 in
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By KELIN DILLON After a period of consecutive hiccups in Mexico’s air travel sector, including near-collisions, construction accidents during the building of the new Santa Lucia airport, and a suspension of Mexico City’s new airspace redesign, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) concluded its audit of the Mexican Federal Civil Aviation Agency’s (AFAC) aviation security, which will decide whether the
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Not the Best Start By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Allianz, the international medical insurance company my daughter works for, decided to send her for a week to the Dominican Republic (DR) to check out hospitals across the island, so I decided to tag along to keep her company and to get to know the country firsthand. As it turned
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By THE PULSE NEWSMEXICO STAFF After missing a 1 p.m. Interjet flight from Cordoba, Veracruz, to Mexico City on Sunday, Feb. 3, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) opted to return to the capital via land rather than wait for the next flight at 4 p.m., his spokesman Jesús Ramírez said. The president was in Cordoba to present his
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite the fact that it took him four and a half hours to arrive at the site of the Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, gasoline explosion on Friday, Jan. 18, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Sunday, Jan. 20, that there was no need for him to use aero-transport to get there. “I will not use airplanes or
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Although it seems that most national and international financial analysts who have reviewed newly instated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) 2019 national budget have deemed it as “credible” and “helpful for investors’ sentiments,” there are at least some incongruences in the proposed financial plan. The budget, which was presented to Congress by Mexican Finance Secretary
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