However, although 7-M did not leave any balance to regret, the conditions are still in place to materialize an unfortunate circumstance.
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Aviation has never been a priority for any government. It has been, is and could continue to be a political puppet to promote great projects of the president in turn. Fox thought of Tizayuca, Hidalgo, to build an airport. Later, the government acquired a plane with Felipe Calderón that during the following administration was used by Enrique Peña Nieto, who also started work on the airport in Texcoco, State of Mexico. Now, the sights are set on the AIFA. A bizarre story.
Now, thinking with a cool head, there is something good in this story: the 7-M incident at the AICM. Thanks to this, what was under the rug appeared: the precarious employment situation of air traffic controllers, the dominance of some commercial airlines; as well as the mistakes, omissions and stubbornness of the authorities in the management and development of the AICM and recently of the AIFA.
According to testimonies collected to feed this story, from the redesign of the airspace, registered in March 2021, the incidents took flight; that is, pilots and air traffic controllers had already warned of the possibility that something could happen during a takeoff or landing at the AICM. It was about time.
Alert calls from international organizations had to come to prevent the chaos from persisting. However, the concern persists and it is not clear how the AICM and AIFA can operate.
The market, the demand, the proximity, everything makes the AICM continue to be, despite what they say, the airport that can meet the demand of the Valley of Mexico. The AICM is the goose that lays the golden eggs. In addition, serious studies show that the two airports do not fit at their maximum capacity. The connectivity of the AICM is such that it moves more than 51 million passengers a year and, for the airlines, this is big business.
Thus, the same sources consulted maintain that, behind all this, there is also a history of power, interests, conveniences, pressures. Who can take seriously an airport, like AIFA, where nobody can get there? Apparently no one.
Companies, it is said, also have their degrees of responsibility. They, the sources maintain, influenced the chaos in the AICM, by dividing up -especially those with the largest market share- the itineraries. Business first. On the other hand, there is also talk of the implementation of a (perverse) process of creating chaos in the AICM to see if this causes passengers and airlines to go to Santa Lucía.