Overview
- Viva Aerobus announced in the early hours of November 11 that takeoffs and landings at AIFA were temporarily suspended due to dense fog with no estimated time to resume.
- The carrier urged passengers to check its website and X account for status changes and rebooking options, stressing that flights will restart only when conditions meet safety requirements.
- User photos and videos showed thick fog over AIFA before 6 a.m., and by press time local reports noted no public updates from the airport or other airlines operating there.
- In Tijuana, at least 7,000 passengers were affected by fog since the weekend, with 60 flights disrupted and 32 canceled on Monday, though the airport reported no cancellations on Tuesday as conditions improved.
- Tijuana’s airport plans to invest about 30 million pesos in advanced approach and meteorological systems aimed at cutting fog-related delays from 6% to 2% by 2026.