

The reconfigured airspace, he said, was leading to aborted takeoffs and landings and to planes flying too close to each other.

Jose Alfredo Covarrubias, secretary general of the National Air Traffic Controllers Union, suggested Monday that officials at Mexican Airspace Navigation Services had been underreporting incidents in the capital’s airspace. It suggested air traffic controllers had not been sufficiently trained for the reconfiguration of the capital’s airspace last year in advance of the opening of the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport north of Mexico’s capital in March. The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations also issued a safety bulletin last week about such incidents.
