10 months after its inauguration, the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) was positioned last December among the 10 air terminals with the most domestic passenger traffic.
According to the Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC) the AIFA was placed last month in tenth place with a record of 199.9 thousand passengersbeing below the Culiacan Airport, which reported 228.4 thousand passengers in the same period.
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The AFAC reported that the Mexico City International Airport was ranked first (AICM), with 2 million 861.8 thousand passengers served on national routes.
After the AICMthere are the airports of Tijuana, Guadalajara, Cancún, and Monterrey, followed by those located in Mérida, San José del Cabo and Puerto Vallarta, in addition to those already mentioned in Culiacán and AIFA.
However, the AIFA still does not enter the top 10 of the airports receives the most international passengers, an area in which the first three positions are occupied by Cancun, the AICM and that of Guadalajara.
The Felipe Angeles International Airport It is one of the megaprojects of the President Andrés Manuel López workshopwhich was inaugurated on March 21, 2022.
Its construction, and now its operations, are under the direction of the Secretary of National Defense (sedena), and its CEO is Isidro Pastor Roman, who on the day of the inauguration assured that during the first year they would transport 2.4 million national and international passengers.
However, he clarified that to meet the objective it would be necessary “an effort to convince and offer better conditions in other airports for them to come here.”
On January 14, as part of the activities organized by the Secretary of Relations and Foreign Affairs (SRE) ambassadors and consuls of Mexico attended a guided tour by staff of the sedena.
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The Chancellery Through his social networks, he shared photos of the tour of the diplomats inside the facilities of the AIFAFor his part, Ricardo Pineda, Mexican consul in Douglas, USAfrom his Twitter account he thanked the visit and assured that with the information provided during the tour it will give them the opportunity to promote the AIFA.
With information from EFE.