The Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) prepares the purchase of another building in Guadalajara, Jalisco to increase its capacities in medical procedures in the sector and thus take more steps to recover Category 1 in aviation.
“The implementation of the project will positively influence the possibility that the country’s aviation categorization improves and pass from Category 2 to Category 1, with the recognition that the Mexican civil aviation authority complies with the aviation standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization”, points to a token you accessed The Truth News.
For this the federal government will allocate 162 million 432 thousand pesos.
The project consists of acquisition and fitting out of a building of offices with a constructed area of 6 thousand 660 square meters, which is made up of six levels and three levels of parking.
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It is located at Av. Mariano Otero exterior number 2353, without interior number, Verde Valle neighborhood in the municipality of Guadalajara in the State of Jalisco, for the development of activities of the First Foreign Headquarters of the Directorate of AFAC Aviation Medicine.
This is in addition to the purchase of another building that also orchestrates the SICT for the same purpose in the vicinity of the International Airport of Mexico City. In this, the authorities are going to invest from the public treasury other 492 million pesos.
The dependency justifies the new acquisition given the need to have offices, particularly in the city of Guadalajara for the direction of aviation medicine, where procedures and evaluations are made to operators of the air sector, necessary in supervision.
He College of Aviator Pilots of Mexico (CPAM) It has indicated that these purchases may respond to the requests that the United States authorities made for the government to recover the category.
However, the College also pointed out that the findings detected by the US authorities are not known for sure, but they trust the actions of the SICT to retake the status.
In addition to these purchases, the SICT intends to recover the category with the reforms to the Civil Aviation Law and the publication of circulars for the sector.
Category 1 of the Mexican aviation authorities was lost in May 2021, after the United States authorities in that sector carried out an audit on the supervision resources of the Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC), attached to the SICT , and they will find, first 28 and later 39 aspects in which, from their point of view, the authorities failed to comply with security protocols.
The SICT has also argued that AFAC was left without adequate infrastructure because after the September 2017 earthquake, the SCOP Center in Mexico City was left unusable.
This degradation from category 2 to 1 meant for the companies the impossibility of opening new commercial transportation services between Mexico and the United States, beyond those that were already registered, and they cannot expand frequencies or operate with larger equipment.
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