AIFA Director General acknowledges impact on airport due to air degradation
The CEO of Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA), Isidoro Roman Pastor recognized that the expansion of international operations of new facilities has been limited by the airline category downgrade Mexican authorities.
“Of course, and this applies to the whole system”, answered the Director General of AIFA when asked that if the airport receives a certain allocation by category 2.
He said the airlines already operating at the airport, and even Cup Airlines companieswho is Panamanian intends to operate flights in connection with State Joined.
In domestic airline industry assignments due to airline category downgrading, domestic carriers cannot increase their frequencies on routes they have already established.
They also cannot open new routes from Mexico to destinations in the United States and another effect is that they cannot certify different aircraft than they had before the degradation of the North American authorities.
“The airlines that operate with us, including Copa, plan, as soon as the category recovers, to fly to states such as Chicago, Los Angeles, San Antonio and some border towns”.
“So far we have four routes from the three national airlines, Aeromexico, VivaAerobus Yes Volaris. It’s in your program, the flights change. Hopefully if we manage to get the category back this year, they could make that adjustment or possibly increase those frequencies,” he noted.
The executive also pointed out that the expansion of the Suburban trainof Dairy products at AIFA It will be completed by CAF in December 2023.
Federal government officials initially said the project would be ready by the middle of next year.
As part of the inauguration of the course AIFA-Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, for Arajet, Victor Pacheco, founder of the company, explained that Mexico is a transcendental market for the tourism and airline industry.
Source: El Heraldo De Mexico
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