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Santa Lucia is one of the most controversial terminals in the Mexican air market.
The transfer aboard an Uber has become today one of the most practical ways to communicate with an airport.
The criticism about the cost of an Uber transfer to the new Santa Lucía terminal shows how soulless this work is and the challenge it has to start operations.
St. Lucia It has become the object of all kinds of analysis and criticism, such as the one launched by a user who through social networks has shown how much it would cost to travel to the new air terminal and whose price even exceeds the rate of certain domestic flights.
This new airport has led to questions from its logo, which has failed to achieve a clear communication proposal, to how difficult it will be to be able to move and the refusal of airlines such as Air Canada, to migrate flights to said airspace, which has led to report the measures that the federal government would carry out, to ensure that the rest of the airlines take part of their flights to said terminal.
An expensive ride on Uber
The expensive transfer aboard an Uber from Mexico City to the Santa Lucía Airport has been exhibited by the former president of the Consar Carlos Ramirez and in the witness has shown the cost of thousand 329 pesos from a point south of CDMX to the terminal.
Compared to the cost of domestic flights, Volaris, for example, has announced this Monday, September 13, domestic flights from 599 pesos, while Aeromexico It has flights within the Mexican Republic starting at one thousand 125 pesos.
In the case of Vivaaerobus, the airline has flights starting at 600 pesos to national destinations.
The exercise carried out by Ramírez sparked an important social conversation that even led users to compare the cost of the Uber transfer to international airports in other cities, with the Santa Lucia route being the most expensive.
The exercise was followed by other users who estimated the cost of the journey at 1,229 pesos. This Monday, September 13 at noon, the cost of the trip of the writing of Merca2.0 to the Military Air Base Number 1 Santa Lucía had a cost of 869 pesos in UberX, 2 thousand 204 pesos in Black SUV and thousand 28 pesos in Uber XL.
An Uber to go to the new Santa Lucía airport from the south of CDMX pic.twitter.com/Ww1g93ikwK
– Carlos Ramírez F. (@CarlosRamirezF) September 11, 2021
Listen to you as soon as an uber is going to leave for the new Santa Lucia airport? I’m going to get out of my house in this. Thanks @lopezobrador_ always thinking about everything pic.twitter.com/o5ZO2DJRqL
– Renato Schiaffino (@MismisimoRenato) September 12, 2021
A metropolitan airport should be (at least) as close as Orly is to the center of Paris. The journey is less than half of what they charge in London.
That of the airports in the house of the tiznada is from the fourth world … https://t.co/FZqG26qEX2 pic.twitter.com/SExrohtKoi
– TheOC_Global (@TheOCGlobal) September 13, 2021
The controversial Santa Lucia airport
The upcoming opening of the Santa Lucía airport has not been without controversy and on the contrary, it has become a questioned work since it was proposed as an alternative to the cancellation of the NAICM, which has become one of the biggest waste of resources federal governments and that motivated the construction of an air terminal that fails to win over passengers or airlines.
Potential passengers, as we have shown, complain about how expensive it is to be able to travel by transport like Uber to this terminal. As for airlines, the federal government is forcing companies to migrate destinations to said terminal, by imposing a cap on operations at the congested Mexico City International Airport.
The airlines themselves have ruled out reaching this new airspace, as happened at the time with Air Canada, after the company ensured that once the blockade imposed by Canada on its borders due to the contingency was lifted, it would increase its operations in Mexico, mainly in beach destinations, however, ruled out that this increase in flights considers Felipe Ángeles as an arrival runway, showing how soulless the terminal is.
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