AICM: with fewer flights it promotes another terminal for more passengers

Despite the fact that the operations of the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) fell 8.7% in June compared to the same period in 2022, the flow of passengers continues to be high, amounting to 3.9 million. For this reason, the terminal will promote another terminal that has more capacity.

The flow of people in the terminal has increased because the airlines now use fewer aircraft but with greater capacity – that is why there is less saturation on the runway – to meet the demand, for which the Mexico City Airport Group (GACM) has prepared a architectural proposal that includes the expansion of the last waiting rooms that will include from 1 to 8 in terminal 1, which has the purpose of “contributing to the improvement in meeting the needs of passengers in terms of airport infrastructure,” they said. , as reported by El Economista.

The proposal includes a strategy to separate the flow of people, although benches have already been removed, the area is full of travelers waiting for their flights to take off. The director of the AICM, Vice Admiral Retired Aviator Pilot, Carlos Velázquez Tiscareño, said that, despite the restrictions on operations and passengers, the volume of users continues to grow, so they seek to improve their infrastructure in the short term to have “a new terminal”.

as reported REPORTUR.mx, the AICM has placed restrictions, but has not yet been able to solve the increase in out-of-hours flights that take off or land at the terminal. Volaris leads the default by accumulating 2,444 operations between January and May out of a total of 3,702. (AICM: saturation grows due to the increase in flights without meeting the schedule).

The AICM published new regulations after the third extraordinary session of the Operations and Schedules Committee, in which it announced the tightening of the measures against late departure operations.