Overview
- AICM invested about 50 million pesos from self-generated funds to acquire three suction and storage vehicles.
- The new units include one 9,200-liter hydrovac camel and two 14,000-liter trucks, bringing the fleet to seven.
- Runway 05R-23L was taken out of service from 20:15 to 23:15 to pump standing water, with operations shifted to 05L-23R.
- A SICT-led interinstitutional group with Conagua and Mexico City authorities is coordinating longer-term drainage solutions.
- Technical teams, including SEMAR’s Obras y Dragado specialists, conducted an August 25 field analysis of the airport’s regulation lagoon after August storms that halted operations and disrupted more than 200 flights and over 25,000 passengers.