The news spread like wildfire and in less than a week the leaders of the national airlines sat down to negotiate with government officials. In the end, they agreed 100 daily operations in the AIFAfrom the 12 that currently houses the new airport with only six flights.
The Secretary of the Interior announced in a statement published on May 10 that, In addition to the transfer of operations from one airport to another, new incoming flights to the AICM will no longer be authorized, and that, immediately, domestic charter and cargo operations will be migrated from the AICM to the AIFA.
After the agreement was announced, the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López, said that, in reality, there was never a decree. “That decree never existed,” he assured in the morning conference.
The decree that Jiménez Pons spoke about last week was never published and the head of the Ministry of the Interior said that “what there was was an agreement between authorities and the companies that operate at the airport.”
“The (commercial) airlines are going to increase the number of operations. Aeroméxico, for example, will increase 10 more frequencies from August 15, and as of September 15 there will be another 20. This will also happen with the other two airlines (Volaris and Viva Aerobus),” said Adán Augusto López.
The official explained that in the next three months the adaptation of the cargo, warehouse and distribution areas at the new airport will be completed, with the aim that “before the end of the year all charter flights and domestic cargo are operating in the AIFA”.