Santa Lucía is hoping to avoid the same destiny as Toluca, which has become a white elephant in the last few years. In the end, there are doubts regarding the future operation of the three airports in Mexico City. In addition, it has not been tackled a formal obstacle assessment." "It is important to highlight that the pre-study conclusion (.) is derived from numerous assumptions and subjected to several uncertainties in terms of input data and local regulations. The European firm concluded that it is technically feasible to do it, but, in order to reach a maximum level of safety and efficiency, Mexico would have to heavily change its airspace structure and retrain completely its Air Traffic Controllers. In 2018, NAVBLUE conducted a pre-study assessing the technical feasibility of simultaneous operations of AICM and Santa Lucia. In the long run, these three airports will handle up to 125 million passengers per year. Instead, he proposed a metropolitan system of airports: AICM, AIT, and Santa Lucía. That project, though, was scrapped.Īndrés Manuel López Obrador, the current Mexican president, canceled the construction of Texcoco Airport. Texcoco airport was going to serve Mexico for the next five decades with a maximum capacity of 130 million passengers, six runways, and two terminals. The Texcoco Airport’s geographical location raised architectural questions, but the project had the support of many international entities.
This new airport was going to be built outside of Mexico City, in the Texcoco lake basin. To cope with the incoming demand, the former Mexican Government under Enrique Peña Nieto planned to build a new airport and close the AICM. In 2019, it served 52 million passengers. Since 2013, Mexico City Airport has reached saturation point. Santa Lucía has always worked simultaneously with Mexico City International Airport, but only because the military base workload is not strong enough to hurt the main Mexican airport’s commercial operations.
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