In this regard, Hugo Delgado, general director of the Toluca International Airport, says that in order to attract more airlines, lower airport costs have been offered, even at levels of up to 80% compared to normal rates.
“One of the strategies that were designed in this administration to reactivate was to boost the commercial business for the airlines through the operating cost,” explains the manager to Expansion.
“We have differentiators in commercial strategies against the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), for example. These incentives that we design are focused on becoming attractively interesting for the commercial strategy”.
As of July 1, Volaris will begin operations on six new routes from Toluca Airport to Tijuana, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Guadalajara and Los Cabos, all with daily frequencies, as well as to Huatulco, where it will fly with four weekly frequencies.
In addition, as of July 15, Viva Aerobus will add five new routes from the Mexican airport, to Acapulco, Oaxaca and Puerto Escondido -all three with two weekly frequencies-, in addition to Cancun and Havana, which will have a daily flight.
Beyond this offer, Delgado refers that, as part of the impulse that is being given to Toluca and the AIFA to vent the AICM, a strategy similar to that of the new airport in Santa Lucía is being evaluated, to which the flights are being moved. national cargo and charters.
“It has not yet been determined which flights are going to leave the AICM to be distributed in the other two airports that make up the metropolitan airport system,” says the manager. “We are part of a system of three airports, there would have to be a solution for it to be inclusive of the entire national airspace.”
As part of the increase in supply that is being sought, discussions have been held with Central American as well as American airlines. However, management with the latter faces the challenge that Mexico continues in the Category 2 of air safety, after it was downgraded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a year ago, which prevents Mexican airlines from adding new flights to the United States.
“Establishing new routes that are based at the airport to the United States is part of the strategy of both AIFA and us. Hopefully we can return to Category 1 so that the airlines again distribute their commercial strategy to the United States from here, ”he concluded.