AICM saturation causes operations to be reduced by 15%

After saturation analysis Mexico City International Airport (AICM), the authorities decided to cut their operations by 14.8 percent, the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) confirmed.

This means that the number of operations per hour at the country’s main airport will be reduced from 61 to 52.

The federal government has been reviewing the airport’s congestion situation due to problems with flight delays and congestion in the waiting room, sanitation corridors, security filters, migration, etc.
A few months ago, the Mexican Airspace Navigation Services (Seneam) published a report in which the authorities concluded that AICM operations per hour had been reduced by up to 30 percent.

At that moment, Rogelio Jimenez PonsSICT Deputy Minister of Transport reported that this reduction was mainly due to the problem of saturation not only in the airspace, but also in the terminals.

Big planes are a problem

The argument he made at the time was that the planes the airlines operated in AICM they were larger, almost twice the capacity of the airport.

But this situation is not new, as the saturation of the airport was announced first in 2013 and then in 2014 from 06:00 to 23:00.

This meant that more than 60 operations per hour were performed at the Benito Juarez air power plant. A few weeks ago, Terminals 1 and 2 of the airport were also declared overcrowded.

Around mid-July 2022, the airport’s new general manager, Carlos Velázquez Tiscareño, stated that his goal was to restore service levels to the airport.

Volaris was the only airline to announce a reduction in AICM operations to move them to Felipe Angeles International Airport, although it is considering only two aircraft until September of this year.

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