MEXICO CITY.— A little more than two years after its inauguration, the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) is close to saturation, reaching the limit of its capacity 6 million passengers under current infrastructure conditions.
In the first half of 2024, that airport received 2 million 701 thousand passengers and, if this trend continues, it would receive between 5.4 and 6 million people at the end of this year.
The former general director of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), Carlos Velázquez Tiscareño, commented in an interview earlier this year that the AIFA It cannot support more than 6 million passengers under current conditions.
“AIFA does not have much capacity, it has 18 contact positions and we have 107,” he said at the end of January. “If I said ‘I’m going to send you 8 million passengers a year’, (the AIFA) has nowhere to put them.”
Juan Antonio Jose, aeronautical consultant, explained that on the air side the terminal has more than enough capacity and can support the same amount of flights that the ACIMbut on the land side is where you could say it is already saturated.
“The problem lies on the land side. The terminal building “There are unproductive areas because the work was delivered half-finished and they would have to be made productive. There are no conditions for new counters,” explained the specialist.
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2024-07-26 23:00:58
