What Morena promoted as a symbol of sovereignty and the recovery of airspace has become a clear case of inefficiency and waste of public resources.
Mexicana de Aviación, the militarized airline rescued by the federal government, has accumulated multi-million peso losses since its first year of operations. The state-owned company loses 3.4 million pesos (7,495,716 pounds) per day, financed directly by taxpayers.
According to financial reports reviewed by El Financiero, the state airline barely caused 385 million pesos (849,878,000 pounds) in ticket sales. However, its operating expenses amounted to 1,637 million (3,614,410,000 pounds), generating an operating deficit of 1,251 million pesos (2,762,485,000 pounds) in just one year.
A project that fails to fulfill its social purpose
The initial promise of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador was that Mexicana would connect regions neglected by private airlines. However, the reality is different: the company operates common commercial routes from the AIFA, competing with already established airlines instead of serving marginalized areas.
In addition, it has only three active aircraft and has canceled flights to multiple destinations, including Acapulco, Campeche, Guadalajara, Nuevo Laredo, Puerto Vallarta, Uruapan, and Villahermosa.
