![]() → Aeromexico brings forward start operations at Felipe Angeles Airport.Įl Universal’s investigation revealed that the Mexican government has spent more than 104 billion pesos, or some US$5.6 billion, on the construction of the AIFA, one of the flagship projects of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration, EFE reported. “The newspaper does its math and adds up to 115 billion pesos (…) more than the budgeted amount, which is not true”, pointed out Ana Elizabeth García Vilchis, in charge of the space called “Who’s who in the lies of the week”. The cost was one of the main concerns of the new government that, ultimately, scrapped the project.The Mexican government denied on Wednesday that the new Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA), which will serve Mexico City, will cost 36% more than initially budgeted, as revealed in a report published by the newspaper El Universal on Monday. The Mexican Government would have funded approximately 60%. As it has been seen with other airports, cost usually rise by the end. Nonetheless, we will never truly know how much the project would have actually cost. ![]() The construction of Texcoco Airport was expected to cost approximately US$13.3 billion. At its peak in 2019, MEX received 52 million travelers. Once the new airport was fully built, it would have allowed 1.12 million annual operations and received up to 137 million passengers. Texcoco Airport was supposed to have six runways, and once inaugurated, would have required the complete shutdown of MEX and the immediate transfer of operations. Foster + Partners, a British architectural firm, won the contract to build the new airport. The project began outside of Mexico City, in the former Texcoco lake basin. ![]() Therefore, the former Mexican government, under Enrique Peña Nieto, decided to build a new airport.
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