“It is just a question of the airlines increasing their flights,” However, at present, the new terminal is more popular among cargo flights than passenger jets.
The aim is that the new airport will help ease congestion at Mexico City’s existing Benito Juarez International Airport, and the government has said that any new carriers wanting to fly to the capital will be forced to use Felipe Angeles. On its Monday opening this week, around 2000 passengers passed through the new terminal, but the government are hoping for 2.4 million a day by the end of the year. The airport boasts a giant statue of its namesake | © Mario Gutierrez Vega Is hasty completion means the airport has become operational before proper road and rail links have been established? The government has received heavy criticism over the airport’s location, with one Mexico city resident claiming it took them two hours to drive from the capital. The new airport has been built next to Santa Lucia Air Force Base 50km due north of the capital. Lopez Obrador decided to build this new airport after scrapping the unfinished Texcoco airport project started by the previous government, labelling it “a bottomless pit of corruption”. On Monday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador opened a new Mexico City airport named Felipe Angeles.
The new site has been criticised for being too far away from the city. A new airport was opened in the outskirts of Mexico City this week after the government scrapped its former airport project three years ago.
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