• DOUBTS: Despite the Mexican Government promise, the use of Performance-based Navigation (PBN) will not increase the number of flights that the new Santa Lucía Airport will be able to handle in conjunction with the Toluca Airport and the Mexico City Airport, according to aviation specialists.
• INEFFICIENT: “When you are above the space is infinite, but when you descend you begin to have certain obstructions, first of all the elevation. This is about how to make airplanes land in an airport and how to get them out of there. Therefore, it’s not infinite”, said María Larriva, a civil aviation expert.
• LIMITATIONS: Originally planned to have three independent runways, the Santa Lucía Airport will end up only using runway 1 for take-offs and runway 3 for landings once both runways are operational according to a November study ADP Ingénierie, company in charge the master plan.
• MAMMOTHS: Planned to open in 2022, construction of the Santa Lucía Airport is moving ahead despite the discovery of a 15,000 year-old wooly mammoth skeleton in November; archeologists have given the green light saying the find is not monumental, unique and suit for preservation.
