The new airport in Mexico City promoted by the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, began operations on Monday hours before it was formally inaugurated.
The terminal, which was built at the Santa Lucia military base, some 50 km from Mexico City, began operating with an Aeromexico flight to Villahermosa, Tabasco (south), López Obrador's home state.
“It is 100 (percent) to the airport, completely completed. (...) It's just a matter of airlines increasing their travel,” said López Obrador during his morning press conference, from the new airport.
The Secretary of National Defense, Luis Crescencio Sandoval, said that on this first day there will be 20 airline operations that have confirmed their presence at the terminal: the national ones Aeromexico, Volaris and Viva Aerobús, and the Venezuelan Conviasa, the only international one so far, which will offer trips to Caracas.
The airport, named Felipe Ángeles, after a soldier of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, replaces another terminal that the government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) built in the suburb of Texcoco at a cost of $13 billion.
López Obrador canceled this work and commissioned the army to build the Felipe Ángeles airport, for some 3,657 million dollars.
The work seeks to alleviate the saturation of Mexico City's current Benito Juárez airport, which in 2021 moved 36 million passengers and in 2019, before the pandemic, a record 50.3 million.
The Felipe Ángeles will serve simultaneously with the current airport and with that of neighboring Toluca.
Analysts have considered that the simultaneous operation of airports increases the risk of accidents.
Isidoro Pastor, operating director of the new airport, said at the same press conference that in 2022 they expect to move 2.4 million passengers and by 2023 some 5 million people.
Pastor said that flights to the United States, one of the main destinations from Mexico, could start in the second half of the year with Delta, Copa and another airline he did not specify.
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