The Mexican Navy will now have full administrative and operation control of the capital’s main transportation hub, as well as new jurisdiction over a handful of the nation’s other airports
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A review of the Mexico City Airport’s migration standards revealed a number issues with the National Institute of Migration’s operations, including several alleged human rights violations
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The crash occurred between the wingtip of an Aeroméxico plane and the stabilizer of a Delta Airline plane
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Rather than use the airlines’ travel times, which are updated accordingly to take common delays like weather, staffing problems and mechanical issues into account, the new AICM timetable standards only display flights’ originally scheduled departure times
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Although the volume of passenger transport at AIFA has increased gradually, it has not progressed faster because it is not a terminal that has inaugurated a new route, but rather complements an existing airport
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By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican federal government’s decision to reduce slots (takeoff and landing times) at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) for the winter season continues to take its toll on travelers. Volaris, a popular Mexican low-cost airline based in Mexico City, canceled 74 flights — “operational adjustments,” according to Volaris — at the AICM between Tuesday, Nov. 1,
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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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PULSE NEWS MEXICO A group of disgruntled former workers of Mexicana de Aviación Airlines, which went belly up in 2010, blocked access to Terminal 1 of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) on Monday, Sept. 5, after having been forcefully removed from the premises four days earlier by members of the Mexican Navy. The workers, who had been protesting their
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a totally unveiled effort to force airlines to use his dysfunction and nearly-impossible-to-get-to Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which most international and even major national airlines have so far avoided for safety concerns, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday, Aug. 11, that he would limit the number of flights allowed to land and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It sounds like a plot out of a Hollywood movie. Actually. it is a plot out of a Hollywood movie: An Eastern European businessman arrives in an international airport only to discover that he is denied entry in the nation in which he has just landed and cannot return to his native country. But in this case,
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