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Sheinbaum delivers first phase of AICM renovation, highlighting 10 billion peso total investment
🇲🇽 Mexico /Economy & Trade

Sheinbaum delivers first phase of AICM renovation, highlighting 10 billion peso total investment

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Mexico City's International Airport (AICM) has completed the first phase of its renovation, with an investment of 6.5 billion pesos.
  • The total renovation project is valued at 10 billion pesos, funded by the airport's own revenue.
  • President Claudia Sheinbaum highlighted the improvements ahead of her two-year performance review and the upcoming FIFA World Cup.

Mexico City's International Airport (AICM) has unveiled the first phase of its extensive renovation, a project President Claudia Sheinbaum marked as a significant achievement just days before the FIFA World Cup 2026 begins.

We are investing 6.5 billion pesos, and it is a very important investment; know that it is from the airport's self-generated funds, no public budget was given to the airport but from its own self-generated funds.

— Claudia SheinbaumPresident Sheinbaum detailed the funding and scope of the first phase of the AICM renovation.

Speaking at Terminal 2, Sheinbaum announced an investment of 6.5 billion pesos for this initial phase, part of a larger 10 billion peso total renovation. Notably, these funds were self-generated by the airport, meaning no public budget was allocated. She emphasized that the improvements, including upgrades to drainage, water, and electricity systems, as well as addressing subsidence issues, will enhance the experience for both the 45 million annual travelers and the airport's workforce.

Sheinbaum contrasted the current administration's focus on improving AICM with what she described as previous governments' intentions to close it in favor of the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA). She framed the completed renovation as a fulfillment of a commitment, aligning with her upcoming "rendición de cuentas" (accountability report) on her two years in office.

This integral renovation of the Airport is strategic for connectivity, also for competitiveness and for the future of our country.

— Clara BrugadaMexico City's head of government highlighted the importance of the AICM renovation.

Clara Brugada, the head of government for Mexico City, underscored the project's strategic importance for the capital's connectivity, competitiveness, and future. She noted that the infrastructure had suffered from decades of neglect and criticized past attempts to "do business" by closing the airport for the construction of a "pharaonic airport." Brugada asserted that AICM is now consolidated as the "heart of the new integral airport system."

Today it is consolidated as the heart of the new integral airport system.

— Clara BrugadaMexico City's head of government described the AICM's role after its renovation.
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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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