DHL at AIFA: air cargo operations
At 11:00 a.m. this Tuesday, DHL landed a cargo plane at Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA), the first regular cargo flight there.
Mexico has 78 airports, 65 of which serve international passengers; the Felipe Angeles International Airport was inaugurated in 2022.
To witness this landing, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador; Antonio Arranz, CEO of DHL Express Mexico; the governors of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum; of the State of Mexico, Alfredo del Mazo; and of Hidalgo, Julio Menchaca, gathered at AIFA.
As in 2017, the airports are operated by three private airport groups (all with Mexican capital) and public entities.
These are Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares (ASA), Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México (AICM), parastatal companies and, since 2020, AIFA, incorporated to operate Aeropuerto Internacional Felipe Ángeles.
AICM operates the country’s main airport, that of Mexico City (CDMX).
DHL
Deutsche Post AG is a listed company domiciled in Bonn, Germany.
Under its DHL and Deutsche Post brands, Deutsche Post DHL Group offers a portfolio of international services in the areas of express delivery, freight forwarding, supply chain management, e-commerce solutions and letter and parcel delivery.
The Group is organized into five operating divisions: Express; Global Forwarding, Freight; Supply Chain; e-commerce solutions; and Post & Parcel Germany.
Each of the divisions is managed by its own divisional headquarters and is subdivided into functions, business units or regions for reporting purposes.
Airports
In addition to AICM and AIFA, two other state-owned companies operate in the airport sector: Servicios Aeroportuarios de la Ciudad de México (SACM) and Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México (GACM).
SACM provides all kinds of administrative services to the AICM and GACM.
GACM was also in charge of building the new CDMX international airport (NAICM), a project started in 2014 that was abandoned in 2019, when 30% of the works had been executed.
In its place, in 2019, the Santa Lucia military base became the Felipe Angeles International Airport.
Mexico City International Airport and Toluca International Airport, together with Felipe Ángeles International Airport, make up the Metropolitan Airport System (SAM).
