Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport (AICM) and companies agreed to temporarily decrease their operations from 61 to 52 per hour, as part of a recommendation to improve the quality of service to users.
According to the Ministry of Communications and Transport, the reduction of flights will be in the saturated schedules, from 7 in the morning, to 10:59 at night, starting on October 31.
Although it is an agreement made between authorities and most of the airlines that operate in the AICM, it will be put to the consideration of the Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC), so that it is approved.
“This measure will be carried out following the management guide of temporary reductions in airport capacity of IATA, ACI and WWAC, which states that any reduction in schedule must be done in a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory manner by the airport administration and the AFAC schedule coordinator,” the Secretariat said in a statement.
On August 11, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that the number of flights in the AICM would be limited due to the saturation it presents.
At a press conference, he indicated that the technical-professional analysis is being done because not only are there more flights, but, being larger aircraft, there are more passengers.
He also announced works to reinforce Terminal 2 of the AICM because it has “structural problems”, and that the works will be in charge of the government of Mexico City.
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