International Airport of Mexico City (NAICM).

(Photo: Zenyazen Flores) Which Way to AIFA?įrom AIFA it will be possible to fly to Cancún, Tijuana, Mérida, Guadalajara, Monterrey and Villahermosa, with flights also planned for Caracas, Venezuela. On March 11, demonstrators in the Zócalo square facing the palace caused road closures in the city center. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lives and works in the National Palace.

Unfinished road works, unexpected road closures and confusion due to the absence of signs pointing to the AIFA caused the GPS to redirect the original route, and the total journey time was one hour and 56 minutes. The route indicated by the GPS pointed to the Mexico-Pachuca Highway as the preferred route, and estimated a journey time of one hour and 23 minutes, although that proved to be a conservative estimate. However, a protest in the city main’s square, or Zócalo, where the National Palace is located, caused a 20-minute delay to the trip’s start as many of the central city streets were blocked. The scheduled departure time from the National Palace was at noon, and which is considered to be outside the city’s peak traffic hours. To calculate the time needed to reach the new airport ahead of its opening on March 18, this Bloomberg Línea reporter drove from the National Palace, where the president lives and works, to the new terminal, in what proved to be a time-consuming trip impeded somewhat by the multiple roadworks under way along the route, as well as confusing signage.

International Airport of Mexico City (NAICM).