“However, AFAC staff carry out a process of continuous improvement, to guarantee a positive result in the next audit,” the agency said in a statement.
The downgrading of Mexican air safety from Category 1 to 2, which was the result of a series of 28 observations made by the US authority, has overshadowed the recovery of the national air sector.
Although the demand for flights, particularly from the United States, has recovered and has even grown compared to pre-pandemic levels, Mexican airlines have not been able to take advantage of this dynamism because Category 2 prevents them from opening more routes or adding new frequencies to the offer that authorized prior to the FAA adjustment.
With the new visit, the AFAC explained that a new assessment of the state of the agency will be made on various issues, and it will depend on this to move on to a final phase consisting of a new audit, with which Category 1 could be recovered.
“The AFAC is ready to receive the experts at the time they determine it and immediately attend to their observations,” added the authority.
Initially, the authorities assured that the recovery of Category 1 would take three to four months. However, by the end of last year, the goal became to reverse the degradation during the first half of this year.
Recently Carlos Rodríguez Munguía, director general of AFAC, told Expansion that Category 1 could recover by the middle of this year.