The National Chamber of Air Transport (Canaero) urged Mexican legislators this Wednesday to approve changes to aviation laws in the country, this with the aim of recovering category 1 in aviation safety before May, when two years have passed since its degradation and the recess of the Mexican Congress begins .
In mid-December 2022, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent a series of modifications to the Civil Aviation Law and the Airport Law to recover this Category 1.
They are reviewing the bill (Mexican legislators), 90% of it is very well done, that will help us get to category 1, which is what we need”,
considered Diana Olivares, president of Canaero.
However, Olivares explained that the remaining percentage deals with allowing cabotage in Mexico, which may allow foreign airlines to operate domestic flights, for which reason he asked to separate this issue from the discussion in the lower house of the Mexican Congress.
What we are asking is that they just divide this discussion, that they remove, please, already category 1 ”,
emphasized.
Regarding cabotage, Canaero, which includes 45 members including airlines, cargo companies, air taxis and service providers, among others, warned that its approval would cause “the new crisis in the air sector, already vulnerable due to multiple factors.”
On this issue, the president of Canaero hoped that the Mexican legislators “make a good decision” and offered all the technical assistance and information they require.
Since January 24, the Mexican government reported that it would receive technical assistance from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) so that “Mexico is prepared and can recover category 1 in aviation safety as soon as possible.” .
Due to having lost this level, Mexico cannot open new routes to the United States from May 2021.
Migration of cargo operations
On another topic, Olivares estimated that the transfer of cargo operations from the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), at the initiative of López Obrador, will be concluded successfully, since he affirmed that “everything is timed”.
At the beginning of February, a presidential decree was published ordering the transfer of cargo operations from one airport to another, on the grounds that the AICM was saturated.
The final date to move these operations is next July 7, and the aviation authorities of the Mexican Government and the private sector collaborate in its process, Olivares explained.
The president of Canaero also commented that the times are different for each airline, as well as that a series of processes are required that do not depend on the aviation companies, but on the regulatory authorities.
Not only the airlines are the ones that make the decision for this move, but what also has to do with the certifications, that all the warehouses are ready, that they are audited, supervised, so we depend on many things, but everything is timed ”,
concluded.
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