Despite the growing demand for summer vacations, Mexico City International Airport (AICM) ha lost 1.7 million passengers this year.
This is due to the reduction from 52 to 43 operations per hour for domestic flights, which seeks to alleviate the saturation of the country’s main air hub and that airlines are expandan at Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA).
The AICM moved to 30.4 million travelers from January to August last year, 1.7 million fewer than in the same period in 2023, and 3 million below the same figure lapse of 2019, when it reached an all-time high.
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This is in line with the goal of 46 million for this year that was set by the administration from the airport that runs the Rear Admiral Jose Ramon Rivera.
“There is no doubt that the policies implemented by the government have had an impact on the lower traffic at AICM,” said Jonathan Félix, an aviation sector analyst at Verum.
The Benito Juárez airport is required to serve at least 40 million travelers per year to cover the Airport Use Fee (OLD) which is transferred to the trust in charge of paying the bonds that financed the construction of the Texcoco project.
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The AIFA was inaugurated on March 21, 2022 with the aim of alleviating the saturation of the AICM, although it still cannot support more than 6 million passengers per year under current conditions. The terminal transported 3.9 million users between January and August of this year.
