MEXICO CITY, June 2 (Reuters) – U.S. aviation regulators completed a evaluate of Mexico’s airspace security however haven’t but introduced a last determination, Mexico’s transportation ministry mentioned on Friday, greater than two years after the nation was stripped of its high air score.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) nonetheless has a number of weeks to finalize a choice about whether or not Mexico will recuperate the score, the transportation ministry mentioned in a press release.
The FAA downgraded Mexico’s aviation security score to Class 2 in 2021, citing security deficiencies and blocking Mexican carriers from including new U.S. flights.
Since Mexico misplaced the score, the FAA has performed a sequence of audits on the native civil aviation authority and its compliance with worldwide security requirements.
A authorities supply instructed Reuters earlier on Friday that the concluded audit was Mexico’s “final,” implying a optimistic decision.
Mexican newspaper El Financiero had earlier reported that Mexico had already recovered the protection score, citing authorities sources, however a short while later backtracked on the preliminary report.
Restoring the FAA’s Class 1 security score would clear airways like Aeromexico and Volaris (VOLARA.MX) so as to add new routes to america and probably perform advertising agreements with U.S. carriers.
Aeromexico CEO Andres Conesa mentioned final 12 months the injury carried out by the downgrade was “important.”
Within the two years because the FAA dropped Mexico to Class 2, the nation has revamped its aviation requirements, changing officers and most just lately overhauling its civil aviation legislation.
Requested to touch upon Mexico’s air security score, an FAA spokesperson would solely say the company continues “to supply help to Mexico’s civil aviation authority.”
Reporting by Kylie Madry and Adriana Barrera; Extra reporting by Carolina Pulice and Ana Isabel Martinez; Enhancing by Brendan O’Boyle, David Alire Garcia and Diane Craft
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