The initiative incorporates the figure of the allocation, so that the head of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) can grant the entities of the Federal Public Administration to provide the public service of national air transport, before which several deputies they were against
The assignment will be for undefined timeand will conclude “only when it is irrefutably proven that the cause of public utility, public interest, general interest, social interest or for reasons of national security that justify it no longer exists.”
At the beginning of the year the unions of the extinct Mexican Aviation They agreed to sell the trademark and other assets of the airline to the federal government for around 817 million pesos. The transaction also includes two real estate assets, a training center, a building in Guadalajara and a flat in Balderas, as well as a simulator.
On the other hand, the bases for the recovery of Category 1 –which endow the Federal Civil Aviation Agency with greater powers– would make it possible to counteract the downgrading to Category 2 carried out by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) almost two years ago, which prevents opening new routes and frequencies to the United States.
In this regard, the National Chamber of Air Transport (Canaero) ruled in favor of consensus in the lower house. “La Canaero (…) recognizes and celebrates the decision of the Chamber of Deputies to withdraw cabotage rights from the discussion and approve the initiative that reforms the Civil Aviation Law, prioritizing the recovery of Category 1, for the benefit of the national airline industry,” he said in a statement.