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 multiple complaints lodged by companies that had been competing in April 2021 for the cleaning contract for the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), the two-year, 21.6 million pesos per month contract granted by the Mexican government to Iroa Real Estate Services, Tecnolimpuerta Delta, Joad Cleaning and Services, and Aseo Privado Institucional was suspended on June 29
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Less than three and a half months after he cut the ribbon on his new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) — which, due to a plethora of problems, such as a lack of working conveyor belts to move luggage and no viable public transportation to and from the hub, is still receiving just 12 flights per day
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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 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 KELIN DILLON Following a near collision between two of Mexican airline Volaris’ planes at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) on Saturday, May 7, members of the federal government and the aviation industry met to add “order to the airport system,” subsequently agreeing to lower the AICM’s operations by 25 percent and adding yet another layer of controversy to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Shots were reportedly fired inside Terminal 3 of Cancun’s International Airport on Monday, March 28. The shots, apparently fired by a single assailant based on footage on social media, led to panic as dozens of people ran out of the terminal building, trampling others in the mayhem. Local police and members of Mexico’s National
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The inauguration of the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) on Monday, March 21, by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) proved that in his polarizing and divide-and-conquer strategy, López Obrador has had an unwitting but unbeatable ally: a class-oriented and racist society that is willing to discriminate at the slightest provocation. Over the
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By KELIN DILLON Just one day after the inauguration of Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) declared Lago Texcoco – the former site of the canceled Mexico City New International Airport (NAICM) – to be a protected nature reserve, putting an official nail in the coffin of the NAICM’s construction. Published in
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