![]() Lopez Obrador tasked the military with overseeing construction of the new airport at a cost of around $3.7 billion. He branded 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. ![]() Three weeks before facing a midterm recall referendum, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will on Monday inaugurate his first major infrastructure pet project - a controversial new airport for Mexico City.īuilt at a military air base outside the capital, Felipe Angeles International Airport is meant to take the pressure off the city's Benito Juarez airport.īut so far only a few airlines have agreed to use it, for a small number of mostly domestic flights.īenito Juarez, which handled a record 50.3 million passengers in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic and is located within Mexico City, is one of the busiest airports in Latin America.įelipe Angeles, named after a general in the Mexican revolution, divided opinion from the start.Īfter taking office in 2018, Lopez Obrador canceled another airport project launched by the previous government that was already one-third complete.
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