Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, December 21, 2024, p. 4
After two losing years, the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) will bill 2,700 million pesos at the end of 2024, against an operating expense of 2,350 million pesos, and will conclude the year with 6.2 million passengers transported, plus 581 thousand tons of cargo transported, which represents a tax collection of 118 billion pesos.
This was reported by its director, General Isidoro Pastor Román, who stressed that the maximum peak of passengers was reached in November, when the AIFA mobilized 623,883, and noted that since its inauguration, in March 2022 to date, it has registered a accumulated transportation of 9 million 795 thousand 496 people.
As planned (that airport) in 2024 no longer requires a budget from the Federation to be able to maintain and operate. It is no longer only sustainable, but has additional income
highlighted President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
In the morning of the town, yesterday he highlighted that in the AIFA The number of passengers continues to grow, the national and international routes of various airlines continue to grow and it is the main cargo airport in the country.
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Against all those who were betting otherwise, “this is the best that could have been done, with the addition that the airport in Texcoco – where it was initially planned – would have sunk. As is, in economic and physical terms, because it is an area of subsidence.”
The Ecological Park will be enhanced
On the other hand, he added, today we have the Lago de Texcoco Ecological Park there, that we are going to enhance even more
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It is, he added, a different vision, because unlike the governments of the past, where the business for business in private hands, now (the AIFA) is an airport for the people and the nation
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He indicated that this area will have a wellness center to take advantage of its competitive advantages as a cargo airport.
When reviewing, in the morning of the town, the evolution of the AIFA, Pastor Román considered that the goal they had planned for 2032, of mobilizing 20 million passengers, could be achieved between 2028 and 2029.
We will be unfolding the terminal like a mirror to go from 20 to 40 million passengers
he indicated. In 2050 we consider transporting up to 100 million people, he stressed.
Regarding these projections, he predicted that in the medium term the AIFA will occupy third place at the national level and in the long term will be the main one in the Valley of Mexico, of the Mexican Airport System and of Latin America
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He explained that with the passengers mobilized only in November, the AIFA is positioned in sixth place out of the 80 airports that exist in Mexico and currently has 37 national and nine international destinations.
The military man explained that two years after its start-up, this airport – considered by the Prix Versailles as one of the most beautiful in the world, due to its architecture and design –, since the first quarter of this year exceeded the break-even point. That is, profitability and this is how we are going to end 2024, with a balance in favor
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