Delta reports near-miss at Mexico City International Airport

A unsafe concern unfolded astatine the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) connected Monday erstwhile an Aeroméxico level landed connected a runway that a Delta craft was utilizing to instrumentality off.

The incidental occurred astatine astir 7:30 a.m. erstwhile an Aeroméxico Connect formation from Aguascalientes came successful to onshore connected the 05 Right runway astatine AICM.

A Boeing 737 level operated by Delta Air Lines was reportedly performing its takeoff rotation connected the aforesaid runway erstwhile Aeroméxico’s Embraer E190 craft flew implicit it earlier landing.

The Delta level had to brake abruptly and abort its takeoff, delaying its departure to Atlanta. It was unclear however adjacent the Aeroméxico level came to the Delta aircraft.

However, the aviation quality website Air Live reported that “both craft were simultaneously occupying the captious information of the runway, creating a unsafe concern with the imaginable for a high-speed collision.”

A idiosyncratic with cognition of the near-miss told the paper El Financiero that the incidental was “more serious” than an incidental successful 2022 erstwhile 2 Volaris planes came adjacent to colliding astatine AICM. The manager of the authorities bureau Seneam (Navigation Services for Mexican Airspace) resigned pursuing the 2022 incident.

El Financiero’s root attributed Monday’s incidental to a “problem” successful the power operation astatine AICM, an highly engaged airdrome whose 2 terminals reached saturation constituent successful aboriginal 2022, according to the national government.

“What they’re saying is that they’re investigating to spot what happened. The information is that the radical are overworked,” the root said, referring to aerial postulation controllers.

Este lunes los vuelo 1631 de @Aeromexico Connect con @embraer 190 XA-ALP procedente de AGU y un @BoeingAirplanes 737 de @Delta vlo 590 hacia ATL estuvieron a punto de colisión en el @AICM_mx cuando uno aterrizaba y el otro despegaba. No hay postura oficial aún. #AviationSafety pic.twitter.com/LD4mUe8deL

— Aviation Mex (@Aviationmex) July 22, 2025

A Delta spokesperson acknowledged that “Flight 590 from Mexico City was progressive successful a runway incursion incidental during departure.”

Mexico City International Airport authorities declined to remark connected the incidental erstwhile consulted by El Financiero.

In summation to the near-miss betwixt the 2 Volaris planes successful May 2022, determination was a akin incidental the aforesaid period involving craft operated by Aeroméxico and United Airlines.

El Financiero reported that the incidental connected Monday “points to, preliminarily, an overload of enactment successful power towers and the deficiency of unit with indispensable training.”

The paper noted that successful a missive sent to national Infrastructure, Communications and Transport Minister Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina past December, aerial postulation controllers warned of the imaginable consequences of the nonaccomplishment to code a shortfall of adequately trained unit astatine Mexican airports. At the aforesaid time, they besides raised concerns astir the excessive workload they face.

In May 2022 — earlier the 2 near-misses astatine AICM that period — the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations raised concerns astir an alleged deficiency of grooming and enactment for Mexico City aerial postulation controllers who, astatine the time, had conscionable begun directing planes operating successful adjacent proximity to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport successful México state, which opened successful March 2022.

Monday’s incidental came 2 days aft the U.S. authorities announced caller restrictions connected flights from Mexico and threatened to extremity a longstanding concern betwixt Delta and Aeroméxico.

The U.S. actions are a effect to a 2023 Mexican authorities decree that suspended cargo hose operations astatine AICM, efficaciously forcing specified airlines to usage AIFA.

With reports from El Financiero, Latinus, Travel Pulse and Air Live