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By: Real America News Updated 27 Sea 2022, : 37 pm EDT
The newly opened Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) in Mexico City will have flights to the United States with the airlines Delta and Copa Airlines for the second half of the 2022, as reported on its official social networks.
“AIFA will have flights to USA with Delta and Copa Airlines in the second half of 2022”, said the AIFA Facebook account.
These airlines will join Volaris, VivaAerobus and Aeroméxico, which are already in operation at the new airport.
Until now, AIFA has six national routes – Tijuana, Cancún, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Villahermosa and Mérida- but expects to expand its offer in the second semester of 2018.
The AIFA, one of the emblematic works of the Government of Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was inaugurated last 03 of March amid criticism for alleged cost overruns, the distance from Mexico City and the control that the Army has over it.
The AIFA is controversial because it replaces from 2018 to the New Mexico International Airport (NAIM), a modern work of the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018 ) which in turn aroused criticism for being built on Lake Texcoco and with contracts questioned for alleged corruption.
López Obrador has assured that with the works in Santa Lucía have been saved 125,000 million pesos (about 6,240 million dollars) and that the AIFA will have an official cost of almost 75,000 million pesos (about 3,743 million dollars), although an investigation carried out a few days ago by the newspaper El Universal calculated the price at almost 116,000 million pesos (just over 5,790 millions of dollars).
The AIFA has suffered from the snub of foreign airlines to operate from there , and so far it will only have nine air operations of four airlines, of which three are national: Aeroméxico, Volaris and Viva Aerobus.
The only route international until now is to Caracas with the Venezuelan airline Conviasa.
In addition, the International Air Transport Association (IATA, for its acronym in English lés) has expressed doubts about the air and land connectivity of the new airport, which operates simultaneously with the current International Airport of Mexico City (AICM).
With information from Efe.
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