© Reuters. Aeromexico airplanes as well as various other airplanes are parked at gateways at Benito Juarez International Flight Terminal in Mexico City, Mexico January 19, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero
By Kylie Madry as well as Adriana Barrera
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -united state aeronautics regulatory authorities ended up a testimonial of Mexico’s airspace safety and security yet have not yet introduced a decision, Mexico’s transport ministry stated on Friday, greater than 2 years after the nation was removed of its leading air score.
The United State Federal Air Travel Management (FAA) still has a number of weeks to complete a choice regarding whether Mexico will certainly recoup the score, the transport ministry stated in a declaration.
The FAA devalued Mexico’s aeronautics safety and security score to Classification 2 in 2021, mentioning safety and security shortages as well as obstructing Mexican providers from including brand-new united state trips.
Because Mexico shed the score, the FAA has actually performed a collection of audits on the neighborhood civil aeronautics authority as well as its conformity with worldwide safety and security requirements.
A federal government resource informed Reuters previously on Friday that the ended audit was Mexico’s “last,” indicating a favorable resolution.
Mexican paper El Financiero had actually previously reported that Mexico had actually currently recouped the safety and security score, mentioning federal government resources, yet a brief time later backtracked on the preliminary record.
Bring back the FAA’s Classification 1 safety and security score would certainly get rid of airline companies like Aeromexico as well as Volaris to include brand-new paths to the USA as well as possibly perform advertising and marketing contracts with united state providers.
Aeromexico chief executive officer Andres Conesa stated in 2015 the damages done by the downgrade was “considerable.”
In both years considering that the FAA went down Mexico to Classification 2, the nation has actually overhauled its aeronautics requirements, changing authorities as well as most just recently upgrading its civil aeronautics legislation.
Asked to talk about Mexico’s air safety and security score, an FAA speaker would just claim the company proceeds “to give help to Mexico’s civil aeronautics authority.”
