PULSE NEWS MEXICO Between March 21 and April 21, the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) registered a net loss of 22,902,811 pesos, according to Mexican government statistics. During its first 30 days of operation, the air terminal, located in Zumpango, in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx) reported revenues of 308,331 pesos. However, the cost of operating the AIFA during
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By MARK LORENZANA Flights between Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela operated by Línea Aérea Conviasa — the flagship carrier and largest airline of Venezuela — and Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) in Mexico City have not been registered, despite thousands of Venezuelan nationals arriving there since March. Although there have already been three Conviasa flights from Caracas,
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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 Over the course of the last 12 months since the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded Mexico’s safety aviation ranking from category 1 to category 2, 2021, Mexican airlines have lost almost $5 billion pesos, according to industry sources. On May 25, 2021, the FAA downgraded Mexico’s aviation security category because of deficiencies in
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By KELIN DILLON Following a near collision between two of Mexican airline Volaris’ planes at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) on Saturday, May 7, members of the federal government and the aviation industry met to add “order to the airport system,” subsequently agreeing to lower the AICM’s operations by 25 percent and adding yet another layer of controversy to
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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 In what critics have called an unabashed attempt to force airlines to use the newly inaugurated, but poorly received, Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, May 2, announced that it will restrict incoming and outgoing flights at Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On its second day of operations, passengers slated to travel from Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) were advised on Tuesday, March 22, that their flights would instead leave out of Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport (AICM). The new airport, which was less than 50 percent operational at its official opening by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s new, three-runway Felipe Ángeles International Airport is set to open on Monday, March 21, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador AMLO) doing the ribbon-cutting honors. The airport, one of AMLO’s key vanity megaprojects, will have four confirmed carriers operating, the Mexican lines, Volaris, Viva Aerobus and Aeroméxico, plus the Venezuelan carrier Conviasa, which
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) is set to be inaugurated with great fanfare by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, March 21, the initial takeoff of its operations will be extremely limited, with just12 daily flights from three airlines, while the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) that it is
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