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 KELIN DILLON The controversial new Santa Lucía airport will become Mexico’s main international airport, said Víctor Hernández, director of Services to the Navigation of the Mexican Air Space (Seneam), based on its larger capacity to expand than the current Mexico City International Airport (AICM). “The AICM over time is set to become the country’s second airport. The first I
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By KELIN DILLON The new Military Air Base (BAM) of the Santa Lucía International Airport was inaugurated on Wednesday, Feb. 10, to mark its construction reaching 50 percent of its completion,with its first fly in by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Mexico’s newest BAM reportedly cost 82.136 billion pesos, including its connection by land to the Mexico City
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XINHUA The Mexican Army airlifted 15.2 tons of humanitarian aid to Honduras for those affected by Hurricanes Iota and Eta, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) reported Saturday, Dec. 12. In a statement, SRE said that a C-130 Hercules cargo plane from the Mexican Air Force had been responsible for taking the shipment of food and water to the Central
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