Long-awaited train to AIFA airport will be running by April, Sheinbaum says

The long-awaited bid to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) should beryllium operational successful clip for Holy Week adjacent year, President Claudia Sheinbaum declared aft examining the last 23.7-kilometer agelong of the railway line.

Sheinbaum was fixed a circuit of the Lechería-AIFA conception of the way connected Sunday by Andrés Lajous, the manager of the Railway Transport Regulatory Agency, visiting the six stations and the AIFA terminal, portion besides taking the archetypal trial ride.

Primer viaje en tren de Lechería al Aeropuerto Internacional “Felipe Ángeles”. Iniciamos la etapa de señalización y pruebas; muy pronto, todas y todos nos subiremos al tren. pic.twitter.com/EgY36aTO9U

— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) December 21, 2025

In a societal media post, Sheinbaum shared video footage of the acquisition and said the signaling and investigating signifier had conscionable gotten nether way. 

While 3 pedestrian bridges are presently nether construction, Sheinbaum said the caller enactment should beryllium ready for nationalist work earlier the extremity of the archetypal 4th of 2026. Holy Week is from March 29 done April 5.

The last agelong of the bid enactment volition nexus the Buenavista presumption successful Mexico City with AIFA, allowing passengers to question the 30-kilometer region successful 43 minutes. The airdrome is located adjacent Zumpango, México state.

Originally presented successful 2020, completion of the task has taken 3 years longer than expected. Then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had announced the caller bid would beryllium acceptable conscionable a fewer months aft AIFA was inaugurated successful March 2022.

Ten months ago, Sheinbaum said the bid enactment would beryllium acceptable successful July but operation lagged for a assortment of reasons. 

Additional infrastructure projects were required, Sheinbaum said Sunday, particularly to marque improvements to the surviving conditions of the surrounding colonisation and immoderate right-of-way adjustments were necessary.

“Some homes had to beryllium relocated … respective radical were adjacent fixed caller housing,” she said.

Once operational, trains volition depart each 15 minutes, with an mean operating velocity of 65 kilometers per hr and a maximum plan velocity of 130 km/h. Each of the 10 trains has a capableness for 719 passengers and volition beryllium utilized connected a rotating basis. Seven trains volition run simultaneously, 2 volition beryllium successful reserve, portion the 10th volition acquisition maintenance.

In summation to connections with the Buenavista-Cuautitlán Suburban Train, the caller enactment volition diagnostic connections with Line B of the Mexico City Metro, with Lines 1, 3 and 4 of the capital’s Metrobús and with the Mexibús successful México state. 

Operating hours volition beryllium from 5:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., and volition yet usage a standardized outgo strategy utilizing the Mexico City transport system’s integrated mobility card.

The outgo of the travel remains nether consideration.

With reports from Expansión Politica, Animal Político and Imer Noticias