Entra en vigor decreto para mudar operaciones de carga del AICM

El Universal, 03/02/2023

Este viernes entra en vigor el decreto por el que todas las operaciones de carga aérea del Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México (AICM) deberán mudarse a otras terminales aéreas en un plazo máximo de 108 días hábiles.

El decreto presidencial se dio a conocer el jueves por la noche y establece que entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF).

Establece que los concesionarios y permisionarios que proporcionen el servicio de transporte aéreo, nacional e internacional regular y no regular exclusivo de carga tienen como plazo máximo el señalado, a partir de la entrada en vigor del decreto, para reubicar sus operaciones fuera del aeropuerto capitalino.

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Mexico to cut flights at main airport after near-miss on runway

MEXICO CITY, May 9 (Reuters) – A Mexican official overseeing an investigation of an incident in which two aircraft nearly crashed on a runway at the country’s main airport said on Monday operations at the over-stretched facility would be reduced by 25%.

Date: May 10th, 2022

Source: Reuters

A video of the Saturday near-miss at Mexico City International Airport showed one plane coming in to land just over another one waiting to take off on the same runway.

Deputy Transport Minister Rogelio Jimenez Pons said he was concerned about a number recent air safety incidents.

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Slow start seen for Felipe Ángeles Airport; only international fight is from Venezuela

Transportation infrastructure is still lacking

Date: March 11th, 2022

Source: Mexico News Daily

Only four airlines will initially use the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which will open north of Mexico City later this month, and the only international flight will be to and from Caracas, Venezuela.

Volaris, VivaAerobús and Aeroméxico will operate four flights each per day between the army-built AIFA and other Mexican airports starting March 21, while Venezuelan state-owned airline Conviasa announced it will fly to and from Caracas once a week on Mondays, although at present its website is only accepting bookings for March 21.

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Trees, Birds, Ponds: Mexico City’s Ancient Lake Reclaims Scrapped Airport

09/07/2020

Source: Voice of America

TEXCOCO, MEXICO – Bright green stalks of weeds are sprouting from the ground where planes were supposed to take off at a new Mexico City airport as officials let nature take over in their bid to transform the marshy swath of an ancient lake into a giant park.

The ghostly skeletons of a partly built control tower and flight terminal are recognizably in the style of Norman Foster, the British architect commissioned by Mexico’s last president to build a futuristic international airport at a cost of $13 billion on 4,800 hectares just east of the capital.

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Mexican president trades barbs with business, civic groups

09/25/19 – AP News

By Mark Stevenson

Mexico’s president engaged in a war of words Wednesday with business and civic groups that have lodged legal challenges to one of his pet projects.

The groups were angered when Andrés Manuel López Obrador abandoned the previous administration’s partly built airport on a former lakebed, claiming the project was drenched in corruption and cost too much.

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Volcanic rock for Mexico City airport came from quarries that operated illegally

09/24/19 – Mexico News Daily

More than half of the quarries that supplied the volcanic rocks tezontle and basalt for the construction of the new Mexico City International Airport (NAIM) operated illegally between 2016 and 2018.

An investigation by the newspaper El Universal determined that 106 of 205 quarries located in 24 México state municipalities near the abandoned airport site in Texcoco violated the law.

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Mexico President Says All Companies Involved in Canceled Airport Paid Off

8/28/19 – New York Times

By Dave Graham

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that all the companies involved in the construction of the part-built $13 billion Mexico City airport he canceled in late October had now been paid off.

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Mexico president kicks off new capital airport project

4/30/2019 – The Washington Post

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday symbolically launched work on a new airport for Mexico City to replace the nearly half-built $13 billion project he cancelled upon taking office.

López Obrador promised the new Felipe Ángeles airport northeast of the capital won’t exceed its budget and will save the government money even with the cancellation of the partially built airport.

“It’s going to resolve the problem of saturation at the current Mexico City airport , but also be an example of how you can carry out a rational, austere policy based on honesty that needs to establish itself as the way to live and the way to govern in our country,” López Obrador said.

The new airport — named for a general allied with revolutionary icon Pancho Villa — is at the Santa Lucia military air base and the army is in charge of getting it built for $4.1 billion.

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Auditors: $167 million misspent in Mexico airport project

2/21/2019 – The Washington Post

By the Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexican federal auditors say they have found $167 million in mismanagement and questionable expenses at a now-cancelled project to build a new Mexico City airport.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had been criticized for cancelling the $13 billion project, which was about half built. Lopez Obrador contends the project was unnecessary, mismanaged and environmentally questionable.

The federal auditor’s office said in a report Wednesday that “there was no integrated plan for the project, which led to deficiencies and limitations.”

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Mexico City Airport Group agrees to pay $1.77 billion to investors

2/13/2019 – Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The government-run Mexico City Airport Group (GACM) said on Tuesday it has agreed to pay some 34 billion pesos ($1.77 billion) to investors who hold shares issued by a trust created to help finance the construction of the now-canceled airport.

The agreement would allow investors in the securities linked to the ditched project to get at least some of their money back.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced the cancellation of the partially-built $13 billion airport in late October, dismissing the project as tainted by corruption and too costly.

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