Mexico.- The Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) It will receive an initial government subsidy of 419.4 million pesos, money that is earmarked only to pay employees and not for other operating expenses.
General Isidoro Pastor, general director of the military parastatal AIFA, admitted on Thursday that the air terminal will require subsidies from the federal government until at least 2026 and announced that in 2022 it will work with 951 million pesos.
In the 2022 Expenditure Budget, AIFA has only allocated 419.4 million for personal services (44 percent of the total) and, in its cash flow program, it did not project the income it expects to obtain from the Airport Use Fee (TUA), rent of commercial premises or rent of spaces and services to the airlines.
For the AIFA to generate profits that allow it to recover what was invested in it, it could take decades, since the terminal and the access roads will end up costing at least 80 billion pesos, paid in full with the federal budget, since there was no investment. private.
Airports and Auxiliary Services (ASA), which manages 19 terminals, will not receive a subsidy in 2022, while the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) It will obtain 680 million pesos, money it needs because the TUA that charges users is a source of payment for the debt that private investors bought to finance the canceled airport in Texcoco.
At the end of September, the AICM had 850 daily commercial operations between takeoffs and landings; ASA airports handled 330, while at its start, on March 21, the AIFA only has confirmed eight daily operations. At the end of 2021, the AIFA had 465 active employees, but this year it is projected to reach 790.
In comparison, the AICM has 1,232 employees of its own –not counting personnel from private companies that provide security services and others–, while ASA has 2,592.
If the 790 jobs are used, the average annual salary in the AIFA for each job will be 531 thousand pesos, before taxes.
At AICM, spending on salaries for its own employees in 2022 will be 543 million pesos, on average 36,728 pesos per month, while ASA will require 1,326 million pesos, which will be enough for an average salary of 42,631 pesos.
The AIFA has been carrying out restricted invitations since the end of 2021 and some of its own tenders via Compranet, separately from the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena), for computer equipment, uniforms, copying services, dining room and others.
AIFA, exceptional work: AMLO
Yesterday, Saturday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador described the Felipe Ángeles International Airport as an exceptional work, which is being built in the State of Mexico and is scheduled to be inaugurated on March 21.
The president highlighted the construction time, which was two and a half years, which is not done in other places.
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“They always set an example of other countries or what is done in other countries, but here in Mexico, because of the work vocation of our people, especially the workers, the construction workers of Mexico are among the best in the world. “, He said.
“Where the ‘Felipe Ángeles’ International Airport is being built, there are workers there, construction workers who are great masters for making formwork, they are construction artists. So, that’s why in a very short time it will open the airport.
He also highlighted the quality of the work, because there are three concrete tracks of more than three thousand meters each.
“A runway for the military air base and two large runways so that two commercial planes land at the same time on those two runways, at the same time. This cannot be carried out at the current Mexico City airport, it cannot be done at same time that two planes land, and here yes, because of the distance from one runway to another,” he added.
López Obrador also put in the cost of the air terminal, because the Texcoco airport was estimated at 300 billion pesos.
“And we were going to have problems because it is a lake, it is mud, there the mainland reaches a depth of 50 meters, imagine, they are constant subsidence, which would only cost the maintenance of that work,” he explained.
“And it was estimated, at the beginning, 300 billion; the ‘Felipe Ángeles’ airport, 75 billion. A saving of 225 billion pesos. It was a good decision that was made.”
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