The AICM began a campaign against flights outside authorized hours that has lasted practically throughout the year.
In March, the airport warned that only the authorized times for a flight would be shown on the airport screens and not those that the airlines commercialize, since several of them operated some flights up to 12 hours after the slot that they had been authorized.
Although the problem of flights outside authorized hours persists, it has been diminishing. In December 2022, the AICM had a record of 1,050 operations that had been carried out outside the authorized hours, while in January of this year 1,045 similar operations had been recorded.
The authority warned that the airlines that incurred in bad practices will see their historical preference affected, which is earned when a company operates at least 75% of its flights within the authorized schedules in a season, either in the summer or in the winter.
According to a report on the improper use of landing and takeoff times at the AICM, prepared by the Coordination of Schedules, there were seven airlines that kept landing and takeoff times -or slots– that they did not plan to operate, assign or exchange: AeroUnion (28 flights), Volaris (five), Atlas Air (three), AeroRepublica (two), and FedEx, Iberia and Magnicharters, with one flight each.
“On said landing and takeoff times, air carriers will not retain the right of historical priority for the times in question, and will have a lower priority for future schedule assignments,” he explained in a document.