The Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) It will increase from 12 to 46 daily flights, from August 15, according to its director, Isidoro Pastor Román.

According to the brigadier general, the airlines Aeromexico, Volaris and Viva Aerobus will be the ones that will operate the most flights from AIFA with national destinations to places like La Paz, Baja California Sur; Mexicali, Baja California; as well as Huatulco, Puerto Escondido and Oaxaca City.

He also announced a second international destination, in Panama with Copa Airlines.

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On July 27, Aeroméxico announced an increase in routes to connect to AIFA, however, in the new schedule, flights to Villahermosa, Tabasco, will be canceled and departures to Cancún, Quintana Roo will be postponed.

The operations that Aeroméxico will start and increase in AIFA are Acapulco, Guerrero, with seven departures; Guadalajara, Jalisco, with 14; Mérida, Yucatán, with seven; Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, with 14; Oaxaca, Oaxaca, with seven; and Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, with seven.

AICM Terminal 2 will continue to operate

That same Monday, the director of Mexico City International Airport (AICM), Carlos Ignacio Velázquez Tiscareño, said that Terminal 2 will not close during repair work.

This concerns the rehabilitation and maintenance of runway 05L/23R at the airport, which will last until December this year.

“The options have already been presented to the president, so it will be decided what happens next, but what is a fact is that the terminal (2) will not be closed during the works, that is to say that work will be done on the repair, but people will continue, operations will be normal,” the official told the media.

He even ruled out any kind of danger with the repair work and the operation at the same time.

“The pothole was a fortuitous event, as explained, due to the rains. Where the pothole appeared, which was reported by a pilot, who said there was gravel, when the gravel was swept away, we saw that there was a pothole, we don’t know how it formed but there was a pothole,” he said of the pothole that caused flight diversions and delays in the AICM, during of last July.