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 KELIN DILLON After Mexico’s air travel was downgraded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from a category one to category two, which posed significant threats to the country’s income from tourism, the nation has reportedly continued as before with its less-than-ideal practices instead of fixing the issues that caused the re-rank in the first place, resulting in even
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Analysts say Mexico’s international tourism could massively suffer as a result of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgrading its airspace ranking on Tuesday, May 25, from a category one to a category two, effectively limiting the country from opening new air routes or flying Mexican airlines into the United States. The downgrade came after a less-than-stellar
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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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