Interjet, Aeromar and Magnicharters did not cover the TUA in the AICM

Mexico City. Three commercial airlines that operated from the Benito Juárez International Airport of Mexico City (AICM) did not comply with the payment of the Airport Use Fee (TUA), the former director of that air terminal, Admiral Carlos Ignacio Velázquez Tiscareño, denounced this morning. .

In the morning of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, when presenting a report on the situation at that airport during his administration, from July 2022 to March 2024, he indicated that the airline companies that did not cover the TUA are Interjet, Aeromar and Magnicharters.

Faced with this, he said, the airport authority filed two criminal complaints.

“We filed criminal complaints, basically against the owners of the airline Interjet, directly against the owners. As I already explained to you, as I already told you, the Public Ministry gave up and we had to file an injunction so that this did not proceed,” said the current general director of the Administration of the National Port System (Asipona) Veracruz.

Meanwhile, in the case of Magnicharters, the owners of that company recognized the debt of 74 million pesos and are paying the debts.

“The other airline that was not giving us the right to TUA was Magnicharter, we discovered it, it had 74 million pesos in debt and we told it: ‘You pay us or stop flying.’ Magnicharter is not a regular commercial airline, but rather a package tour airline. So, in a very responsible way, they recognized the debt, we made a payment program with the regulatory interests and they are paying it responsibly and yes, they continue flying,” he explained.

The former director of the AICM stressed that as far as Aeromar is concerned, they were prevented from continuing with air operations and face a commercial lawsuit.

“Aeromar owed us 750 million pesos, it owed the Treasury, it owed the union, it owed Infonavit, it owed Social Security, it owed ASA (Airports and Auxiliary Services) fuel and it continued flying. We summoned them several times, they refused to pay, the owners do not live in Mexico and they also do not have their own property.”

For this reason, “we take them down from flying. Since then, there is now a commercial bankruptcy so that the few assets they have are delivered to the unions and in the meantime we can use those facilities to obtain an economic benefit,” the admiral explained.