View of the construction site of the new international airport which will be called ‘General Felipe Angeles’ at the Santa Lucia Air Force Base in Zumpango, near Mexico City, on January 21, 2022. Two months before it is due to open with just a handful of confirmed flights, workers are racing to finish a new international airport for Mexico City — one of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s flagship projects.
Its location in eastern Mexico City is far more convenient for many residents of the capital than Felipe Angeles, which is located about 40 kilometers north of the capital’s historic district. After taking office in 2018, Lopez Obrador canceled another airport project launched by the previous government and already one-third complete.He called the $13 billion project a “bottomless pit” rife with corruption and decided instead to turn the Santa Lucia military air base into a second airport for the sprawling Mexican capital.
A planned rail link to connect the airport with the capital’s suburban train network is not scheduled to be completed until the second half of 2023.Around 87 percent of the airport construction has been finished with two months left before the March 21 opening, said Captain Diego Diaz Avila of the military’s engineer corps.
“They’re giving it a chance to operate there to see the costs, demand and how profitable it can be,” he said.
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