Nestor Jimenez and Emir Olivares
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, May 11, 2022, p. eleven
In a categorical manner, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintained that there is no problem of redesign (of airspace), that was invented by our adversaries and the conservative press
; this, after the meeting in the Interior with representatives of the aviation industry, held on Monday.
In his press conference yesterday, the president maintained that it is because voluntary decision
and agreements with the companies that are looking for a way to order the flights to send them from the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) to other air terminals.
After reproaching that before the incident involving the Volaris plane over the weekend, it was reported that the government is about to issue an official decree to release cargo aircraft and send them to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) on a mandatory basis, at the conference he was told He pointed out that the announcement of the decree was made by Rogelio Jiménez Pons, Undersecretary of Transportation of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation.
Given this, the head of the federal Executive responded: Yes, but I sign that, that is, they would have asked me. I didn’t even know. So, everything is being put in order and it will be resolved
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At the same time, he maintained that the criticism against the design of the airspace in the Valley of Mexico stems from the disagreement of his opponents over the cancellation of the Texcoco project, with which they wanted to keep the land
of the AICM to carry out a real estate project.
To justify it, Those who carried out the airspace management studies acted in a biased manner, to say the least, because they were paid to resolve that it was not possible to interact in the airspace, that only the Texcoco airport could operate.
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He even added, accommodated
tracks in the Texcoco project for that purpose. They are corrupt
he said, explaining that a company he did all that rinsing to give it a look of professionalism, but what was behind it was the purpose of keeping the 600 hectares of the current airport
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Closing the AICM would also be throw it away
works such as Terminal 2, which charged at the price of gold
or the billion-peso presidential hangar.
Due to the cancellation of the project in Texcoco, he insisted, They were very angry and now they are back with the redesign of the airspace. What do I send them to say? With all due respect, well, let them go with their story elsewhere.
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After denouncing differences between air traffic controllers, he asserted that they are being addressed and in the case of the airport, there are groups. And I also take this opportunity to tell them to come to an agreement, because the public interest will not be allowed to be affected. And the Government is already having meetings with the aviation companies, they have already made the commitment
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He considered that with the opening of the new air terminal they are also playing arm wrestling, they didn’t want to use the new airport, the same ones. So, the current airport is saturated
for this reason.
He recalled that companies such as Aeroméxico and two other airlines agreed to transfer flights to AIFA.
