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Sedena’s plans are to open a new airline in charge of the military company ‘Olmeca-Maya-Mexica’.
Emails and documents leaked by hackers “Guacamaya leaks” forced the Government to confirm this project.
The controversy arises from the feasibility and legality of Sedena operating an airport and an airline at the same time.
After the massive hacking of the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) revealed that the military unit is thinking of launching its own commercial airlinecitizen perception divided opinions on the economic viability and national competition that this would have in the airport market, leaving a majority on the security that the parastatal company could offer travelers.
The facts were confirmed: Sedena analyzes the feasibility of the new Mexican State Airline, who would be in charge of the military company ‘Olmec-Maya-Mexica’ and, initially, it would operate national routes with 10 leased ships from the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA). This annual operation would cost between one thousand and one thousand 800 million pesos.
This is what users think about the new Sedena airline
The controversy generated by the confirmation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador about the new Sedena airline, which is expected to operate by 2023, has made users reveal their main concerns as users of the airport market.
72 percent of Merca2.0 readers say they do not trust the military unit to operate a commercial area brand, against 28 percent of those who would be passengers on these ships.
Among the majority arguments provided by the LinkedIn professionals surveyed, the main factor of mistrust that would make them not travel on an airline operated by Sedena is safety, since they emphasize the military air incidents of this administration.
And it is that information from the same Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) and the Secretary of the Navy (Semar) showed, in March of this year, that the Armed Forces would have collected insurance for up to 196 million dollars for 81 accident aircraft and helicopters between January 2005 and January 2022.
These are Seguros Atlas, Seguros Inbursa and other companies that were in charge of compensating the dependencies for the crash and fall of Learjet, Texan, Pilatus, Antonov, Aermacchi and Cessna model aircraft, as well as MI-17 type helicopters. , MD530F, Bell, AW109SP.
Reports up to the beginning of 2022 already registered more than 111 military and marine deaths in the total loss of these accident aircraft.
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The same exercise was carried out in the accounts of Instagram Y Twitterwhere regular readers of Merca2.0 replicated the reactions, showing the same negative trend to the federal government project that seeks to give commercial power to the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) through a new state-owned airline.
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