Other routes that had considerable growth were Montereywith 55.4% more passengers, and mexicaliwhich more than doubled during the period.
The average number of daily passengers at AIFA also rose, going from 3,036 users to 5,609 passengers during October.
The increase in passengers at the terminal responds to an agreement between the federal government and the airlines to increase demand for the new airport to more than 100 daily operations from the 12 with which it started last March. With that, Aeromexico, Long live Aerobus Y you will fly announced a considerable increase in routes in AIFA, where all started with two destinations each.
At the same time, the International Airport of Mexico City (AICM) reduced the maximum number of operations per hour by 15%, with which the three main Mexican airlines cut flights, even generating canceled operations that affected users, as was the case with Volaris at the beginning of November.
The air sector is waiting for other measures to boost traffic at AIFA, such as cabotage that allow foreign airlines to have national routes from the new airport, something that to date is not contemplated in the law.
“The interest of considering the opening of air liberties to encourage the operation of AIFA is not the appropriate mechanism for this objective and violates the position of the national airline industry,” said the National Chamber of Air Transport (Canaero) recently in a statement.
