The new hub, named after a general in the Mexican revolution, is meant to take the pressure off Benito Juarez airport, which will continue operating.īenito Juarez, which handled a record 50.3 million passengers in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic, is one of the busiest airports in Latin America. So far only three national airlines - Volaris, Viva Aerobus and Aeromexico - as well as Venezuela's Conviasa have agreed to operate a limited number of mostly domestic flights from Felipe Angeles. The opening of Lopez Obrador's first major infrastructure project comes as Mexicans prepare to vote on April 10 in a referendum championed by the president on whether he should stay in office. ![]() "It's just a matter of airlines increasing their trips" from Felipe Angeles, he said. ![]() "The airport is 100 percent complete," Lopez Obrador said at his daily news conference held at the new airport. Felipe Angeles International Airport, built at a military air base north of Mexico City, began operating with a domestic Aeromexico flight bound for Villahermosa in Lopez Obrador's home state of Tabasco.
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