Mexico City, August 8.- Among the new destinations at Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) are Mexicali, La Paz, Huatulco, Puerto Escondido, and Oaxaca, said General Director Isidoro Pastor.
Pastor also said that starting August 15, operations will increase from 12 to 46 daily flights as part of the decisions of three of Mexico's major airlines: Aeroméxico, Viva Aerobus, and Volaris.
Briefly interviewed at the end of a meeting at the National Palace regarding AIFA's operations, Pastor indicated that an international Copa Airlines flight from Panama will also be added, in addition to the one from Venezuela.
For his part, Carlos Ignacio Tiscareño, general director of Mexico City International Airport, referred to the problem of the pothole detected on one of the runways of that terminal: "The pothole was a fortuitous event, as explained due to rain and because where the pothole appeared that a pilot reported, who said there was gravel, when they came to sweep the gravel, it was seen that there was a pothole, we do not know how it formed but there was a pothole."
He commented that when the incident was detected, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was about to land in Mexico City, but his landing was aborted by the Control Tower because a Viva Aerobus aircraft was on the runway. "The control tower didn't know the President was on that commercial Aeroméxico flight. If they had known, they would surely have given him more space so the plane could land without any problems."
He said that the runway has been under maintenance since November of last year, meaning work on the pothole, the famous pothole, didn't begin until November of last year, and we finished it now in September.
The opinion for the President?
—It is being studied, the options have already been presented to the president, so the decision will be made as to what to do next, but what is a fact is that the terminal will not be closed during the works. In other words, the repairs will continue, but people will continue, operations will be normal.
