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December 3, 2054

Will Travelers Embrace Mexico’s New Int’l Airport?

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport last week. // Photo: Mexican Government.

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  • Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport on March 21, three years after he halted the construction of a separate $13 billion airport project. Twenty-seven miles away from the center of Mexico City, the $4.1 billion airport was built by the Mexican army on an army air base and will initially handle approximately 16 flights each day. To what extent will travelers embrace the airport, and what will be its economic impact? How much will the new airport relieve congestion at the existing Mexico City International Airport? What reasons were behind López Obrador’s cancellation of the much larger Texcoco airport project in 2018 and his embrace of the Felipe Ángeles airport?

A

Claudia Sheinbaum, head of government of Mexico City: “The Felipe Ángeles International Airport exemplifies the essence of the Fourth Transformation of public life led by President López Obrador in Mexico. Contrary to the old practice of advancing privilege and private benefit for the few, the new airport is part of a rational, coherent project for urban and economic development, the protection of natural resources and the promotion of people’s well-being. The failed project of building an airport in the old Lake Texcoco involved closing the Santa Lucía Military Airport and the Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, the busiest airport in Latin America transporting more than 36 million passengers every year and the source of employment for more than 45,000 direct and indirect workers. The construction of the Texcoco Airport would have cost more than twice the amount…”

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