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Last Minute: The government agrees more than 100 daily operations in the AIFA with the airlines

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The Federal Government and the airlines agreed on a plan to significantly increase operations at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which starting in August would begin a process to have up to more than 100 daily operations from the 12 it currently houses with only six flights. .

In a statement, the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) reported that, as part of an agreement reached at a meeting held yesterday with directors of Aeroméxico, Viva Aerobus and Volaris, it was also agreed that no new incoming flights will be authorized to the International Airport of the Mexico City (AICM), and that, immediately, the national charter and cargo operations of the AICM will be migrated to the AIFA.

Other measures to ease the AICM imply that the airlines will maintain the takeoff and landing times (also known as slots ) assigned for the summer season.

In addition, the airlines that today operate in the AICM and that have more than a year of airport debts, fuel, taxes and rights, among other concepts, will not be able to continue their flights and will have to migrate to another air terminal, reported the Segob.

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