Almost two months after the “inauguration” of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), President Andrés Manuel continues to pretend to rule by decree, eliminating 11 operations per hour from the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) and sending them to AIFA, 20% fewer flights in the short term and 30% in the long term, starting with cargo and charter flights. So that? To hide this huge failure, and endangering the safety of millions of passengers.
For more than 20 years, feasibility studies have shown that the only territorial area in the Valley of Mexico to build an airport was Texcoco. Today, without listening to the Air Pilots or the controllers, much less the International Civil Aviation Organization or the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States, we have a new airport whose true cost, permits, financial reports, or airspace studies.
Let’s go to the facts: money from our taxes was injected into a trust for its construction for almost $120 billion as far as there is public information, because the reality is only known by the Mexican government since the contracts were classified as national security and not may be disclosed for up to five years. Obviously, to the cost of the new airport, we must also add the $332 billion from the cancellation of Texcoco. In conclusion, it was not cheap for us.
Social network users constantly share photos of the AIFA empty and without passengers, with more toilets than flights, because it is not even used by its main promoter, the President of the Republic. The recent call of the International Federation of Pilots and the Union of pilots aviators of Mexico is extremely alarming, in a public statement they report that the new redistribution of airspace in Mexico City is increasing aviation incidents, requesting all pilots that they rely more on their physical preparation and that they carry enough fuel to avoid endangering the crew.
The flagship works of this government are a failure, because just like the AIFA there is the Dos Bocas refinery, where a group of senators walked in an allegorical parade to meet it. But the reality is that two months before the inauguration of this mega-project of almost 10 billion dollars, nobody knows what is happening in Dos Bocas; a servant has made more than 200 requests for information via the transparency platform and three trades to allow me a tour, but they have still denied me information and entry to the project, what are they trying to hide from me?
Mexico, and especially my state, require all public investment to have balanced and sustainable growth, but government spending must be strategic, taking care of the environment and must be exercised in an efficient and transparent manner. Lack of planning is the mother of all failures. As a Deputy for Tabasco but especially as a Mexican, I am interested in things going well for us, but unfortunately the few works we have in the country are a nest of corruption and opacity. I hope that the history of AIFA’s failure will not be repeated in a couple of months in Dos Bocas, and that both will not become a monument to inefficiency and tarnish-colored transparency.
@PerezSoraya
Economist
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Former President of the Federation of Colleges of Economists of the Mexican Republic AC