OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As debate over the safety of Mexico’s redesigned airspace — which has been linked to at least 17 close-call airplane incidents (and perhaps as many as 30) in the 12 months since its implementation — continues to fester, both Mexican and international aviation experts are warning that it may be time to reexamine the massive $17
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Based on what is known so far of the new government-sponsored Felipe Ángeles Airport in Santa Lucía, State of Mexico, it will essentially be inoperable due to its poor design, former Mexican air traffic controller María Larriva Sahd warned Wednesday, Dec. 1. “The resign of the (former military) airport will make for longer routes
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By KELIN DILLON Amid a controversial year for Mexico’s aeronautics sector, high-ups in the country’s Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC) purportedly helped its pilots cheat their way through the Mexican commercial pilot exam, allowing underqualified and unprepared aviators to operate in Mexico’s airspace. After a Sept. 6 investigation ordered by retired general and now-former head of the International Civil Aviation
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By KELIN DILLON After Mexico’s airspace safety valuation was demoted by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from a Category 1 to a Category 2 last May, leaving Mexican airlines expansion into the United States in limbo and hurting the country’s tourism revenue, Mexico has apparently done little to reverse the decision, now culminating in the Federal Civil Aviation Agency
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By KELIN DILLON As the Mexican government prepares to revive defunct national airline Mexicana de Aviación to service Mexico once more, the project has already exceeded its proposed budget by an additional 100 million pesos. The venture would see 40 percent sponsorship by the Mexican government and another 40 percent in funding from private investors, which will now need to
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By KELIN DILLON As the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) degradation of Mexico’s airspace ranking from a category 1 to a category 2 continues to send shockwaves throughout the country’s flight sector, director of the International Civil Aviation Training Center (CIAAC) Benjamin Romero has found himself the latest casualty of the ongoing saga. Romero was asked to peacefully leave his
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By KELIN DILLON Several months after Mexico’s air space rating was downgraded from a category 1 to a category 2 by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the country has failed to fix its aviation-related issues to regain a higher rating within the year, pushing its reevaluation into 2022. While Deputy Secretary of Transportation Carlos Morán and the Deputy Secretary
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The problems with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial Santa Lucía Airport project just keep adding up. In addition to work delays and over-expenditures, a high rate of workplace accidents and countless lawsuits over its prioritization and the cancelation of the previous private-sector New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) — not to mention the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Union of Air Traffic Controllers (Sinacta) publicly denounced its perceived persecution by the nation’s government-run Air Navigation Services in Mexican Air Space (Seneam), following Sinacta’s reports of two planes nearly colliding after the allegedly negligent redesign of Mexico City’s airspace. Sinacta also reported another incident where two planes came close to collision in Guadalajara’s eastern
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By KELIN DILLON Following the design of the airspace surrounding Mexico’s capital Mexico City, the National Union of Air Traffic Controllers (Sinacta) has warned the new flight paths bring an increased risk of accidents and collisions, due to the more complex maneuvers the redesign necessitates. General Secretary of Sinacta José Alfredo Covarrubias described the new routes as “bad,” telling El
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