By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Víctor Manuel Hernández Sandoval, general director of the Office of Navigation Services for Mexican Air Space (Seneam), has resigned from his position effective Monday, May 9, after having been accused by aviation experts of ignoring constant complaints from pilots and air traffic controllers about safety concerns and following a near collisions at the Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A small airplane crashed into a Bodega Aurrerá supermarket in the municipality of Temixco, Morelos, on the afternoon of Monday, March 28, killing all three passengers aboard. Morelos Governor Cuauhtémoc Blanco reported that first responders were on the scene almost immediately, providing assistance to three persons injured in the crash. According to Flightaware, a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s leading airlines, Aeroméxico, announced Wednesday, Nov. 11, that it will begin offering direct daily flights between Mexico City and Chetumal, the capital of the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, as of Wednesday, Dec. 9. With this addition, Aeroméxico will offer a total of 130 weekly flights to Quintana Roo — Cancun and Chetumal
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid Vaccine Trials Mexico will soon launch phase 3 trials of the Canadian-Chinese covid-19 vaccine called CanSino Biologics developed by Janssen Labs, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The vaccine trials will be held in Mexico City, the Pacific Coast states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and the northern border states Coahuila and Nuevo León, accross from
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By MÓNICA CHERRIE After abruptly cancelling all of its flights on Sunday, Nov. 1, and Monday, Nov. 2, Mexico’s third-largest airlines Interjet seemed to be on the verge of bankruptcy this week as rumors flew over buyouts and employee culling As of Thursday, Nov. 5, the low-cost airline’s website remained down, leaving nearly 3,000 passengers stranded, with no information as
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in early 19th century, Auguste Agassiz, the soft-spoken second son of a conservative Protestant family that had, for centuries, lived in same rural Swiss village of Agiez, near Lake Neuchatel, in the mountainous canton of Vaud, decided to break with tradition and move to the western canton of Bern. For Auguste – who, it had been
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Southwest Airlines will discontinue its Mexico City routes as of March 30, the airlines announced. The Dallas-based economy airlines, which first began offering daily flights between Mexico City and Houston, Texas, in 2014, said that the decision to cut the service was based on the fact that the route had not proven sufficiently profitable.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s official: The “pharaonic” construction of the New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) was announced defunct last Dec. 27 The cancellation of the ongoing construction comes four years after former President Enrique Peña Nieto, along with the Mexico City Airports Group – in charge of building – announced its beginnings. The decision was announced by the new Mexican
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Whether to continue construction of the New Mexico City International Airport (NAIM) at the Texcoco Lake basin or not — that will be the question asked in a “citizens’ consultation poll” to be carried between Thursday, Oct. 25 and Sunday, Oct. 28. The poll will be carried out across the nation’s 573 most-populated municipalities, at 1,076 polling booths. The esteemed Arturo Rosenblueth Foundation will
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Airport engineer Russell “Rusty” Henson still has the dream of bringing a small airplane service airport to San Miguel de Allende (SMA), the place where he retired to over 10 years ago. He says he still dreams about the project, but not as vehemently as he used to, particularly after that dream turned into a nightmare of envy and
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