AIFA will not operate cargo flights yet: SICT

Rogelio Jiménez Ponce, Undersecretary of Transport for the Secretariat for Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), said Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) is not currently in a position to receive cargo due to a lack of infrastructure for three or four months. .). In an exclusive interview, the federal official announced that the decree about to be published would not consider commercial operations, but would be exclusive to freight operators and charterers.

Jiménez Pons announced a few days ago that the Mexican government’s plan to reduce saturation at Mexico City International Airport (AICM) is considering a decree to move freight operations to AIFA, at the same time realizing that as long as Mexico does not reclaim Class 1 by the FAA, shipments will be affected with the United States.

“The subject of the category was considered in the decree, we should give the operators time, first we take the category back and then they go to AIFA. I am optimistic and hope it will recover in four months.” At the same time, the Undersecretary acknowledged that although the decree was issued by AICM saturation, the saturation is not higher (in the airspace), but in general areas of service that renders both terminals inoperative.

It’s saturated but it’s less about operations than about infrastructure on the ground. The rooms, the corridors, the bathrooms, the parking lot and the entrance, so we will send the shipment to Al-Aifa.”

Regarding the re-design of the airspace, the federal official stressed that there is no way to go back to the previous design, adding that it is in the stage of field verification, and this is a dynamic process, especially since many people are related to many. other factors.

“We can’t go back to the previous airspace design because the AIFA variant wasn’t there, that simple. We have to adjust it to this new reality,” he said.