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 KELIN DILLON Just five months after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated the freshly constructed Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) as open for operations, the brand new air hub is already suffering from the same flight delays and operational issues currently plaguing its still-functioning predecessor, the Mexico City International Airport (AICM). The AIFA has been touted by
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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 As the controversy between the operations of Mexico City’s International (AICM) and the newly constructed Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) carries on, the capital metropolitan area’s Toluca International Airport (AIT) – often considered Mexico City’s main alternative airport – has now offered up to 80 percent discounts on airport fees for airlines willing to fly out of
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As of Sunday, June 12, international visitors entering the United States will no longer be required to present proof of a negative PCR or antigen covid-19 test, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced late Friday, June 10. The decision to lift the requirement came amid mounting pressure from airlines that considered the measure as excessive
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, May 9, defended the redesign of Mexico’s airspace, implemented in April 2021 to accommodate his controversial Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which so far has only a handful of flights daily and is used by only one international carrier, Venezuela’s Conviasa. Insisting that there is
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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 KELIN DILLON According to the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) of Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), airfares increased by 43.9 percent during the country’s second economic quarter of 2021 compared to the year previous. The surge in price can be explained due to several factors — first and foremost, because flights during the second quarter of
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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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