Ebrard explained that there is an agreement with which the FAA and the Federal Aviation Agency (AFAC) are working so that the country recovers its qualification and explained that there have been technical visits and it is expected that more will take place, after the US authority downgrade it to Category 2.
“We are working with that calendar and we are on track, on the way to ensure that Mexico is in the first half of next year again in Category 1,” said the foreign minister.
Mexico is the most frequent destination for US travelers and, at the moment, it lacks “the necessary requirements to supervise the country’s airlines in accordance with minimum international safety standards,” according to the FAA.
In 2010 there was a similar downgrade of the US authority to Mexico, caused by alleged deficiencies in the institution responsible for civil aviation, which lasted about four months.
Currently, the FAA only classifies a few countries in Category 2, including Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand and Malaysia.
For United States airlines, the limitation to Mexican companies has resulted in record levels in passenger transport with Mexico, registering the highest air traffic in their history for a month last July, when they served 2.3 million passengers. .