Given the controversy that the newly opened Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) in Mexico City does not have enough routes to justify its operation, this Saturday it was announced that starting in the second half of 2022 it will have flights to the United States, the busiest international destination for Mexicans.
This was stated by AIFA through its Facebook account, where it detailed that the airlines that will provide their services will be Delta and Copa Airlines, and that they will join Volaris, VivaAerobus and Aeromexico, which are already in operation at the new airport.
It is worth mentioning that so far, AIFA has six national routes: Tijuana, Cancun, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Villahermosa and Mérida. The only international route so far is to Caracas with the Venezuelan airline Conviasa. Therefore, it is expected that it will be able to expand its offer during the course of the year.
Also known as Santa Lucia airport, because it was an airbase of the Mexican Army, is one of the emblematic works of the Government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was inaugurated on March 21 amid criticism of alleged cost overruns, the remoteness from Mexico City and the control that he's got the Army on him.
AIFA is controversial because since 2018 it has replaced Mexico's New International Airport (NAIM), a modern work of Enrique Peña Nieto's six-year term (2012-2018), which in turn aroused criticism for building on Lake Texcoco and with contracts questioned for alleged corruption.
López Obrador has assured that the work in Saint Lucia has saved 125 billion pesos (about 6.24 billion dollars) and that AIFA will officially cost almost 75 billion pesos (about 3,743 million dollars), although research conducted a few days ago by the newspaper El Universal estimated the price at almost 116,000 million pesos (just over $5.79 billion).
In addition, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has expressed doubts about the air and ground connectivity of the new airport, which operates simultaneously with the current Mexico City International Airport (AICM).
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