In Mexico City, airlines will have to operate in three simultaneous airports
Source:Milenio
From:Taiwan Trade Center Mexico
Update Time:2019/04/27
After canceling the “Texcoco airport project”, Mexico´s government´s plan is to enable the “Santa Lucía military base” as a commercial airport and to reinforce the capacity of the Toluca and Mexico City airports, as a solution to the air space saturation of the Mexican capital.
The fact is, that Mexican airlines in Mexico City, which concentrates almost half of the passengers that transit through the country, will have to face the challenge of operating in a system of three simultaneous airports: the AICM (Mexico City), Toluca and Santa Lucía airports.
The airline industry, represented by the International Air Transport Association (IATA, for its acronym in English), warned the Mexican government that having three simultaneous airports will hinder the operations for airlines, will not solve the problem of air saturation in the Mexican capital and, in the long term, could even be unsafe and more expensive.
In addition, senior IATA executives commented that it is extremely unusual to see that a military air base is turned into a civil international airport, to serve commercial airlines.
Source:https://www.milenio.com/