Taxi drivers announce blockade at Mexico City International Airport today

Access roads to Terminal 1 and 2 of Mexico City International Airport (AICM) volition beryllium blocked contiguous arsenic taxi drivers protestation the government’s ongoing enactment for ride-hailing apps operating astatine the capital’s airport. 

Taxi drivers person besides warned users that taxi companies astatine the airdrome won’t supply proscription services during the full protest.  

The protest, organized by the taxi enactment New Image Land Transportation, A.C., is scheduled to commencement this greeting betwixt 9 and 10 a.m. astatine the entranceway of gross 9 of AICM, earlier moving connected to artifact entree roads to some terminals. 

Taxi drivers person said they volition artifact roads for an indefinite magnitude of time.  

“The full assemblage volition beryllium contiguous connected the airdrome roads indefinitely, until the authorities springiness america a written committedness that the existent instrumentality volition not beryllium modified and that the existent ineligible model volition beryllium respected,” the taxi drivers stated. 

Why are taxi drivers protesting? 

The protests travel the instauration of a measure to modify the instrumentality and let the cognition of integer proscription platforms (Uber, DiDi) successful national areas, which includes the AICM. Taxi drivers see the determination a nonstop menace to their root of enactment and assets.

“Given the deficiency of enforcement of the instrumentality by the Infrastructure, Communications and Transport Ministry (SICT) and AICM authorities, who proceed to let ride-hailing apps to run wrong national areas wherever the instrumentality prohibits it, and fixed the initiatives being promoted successful the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies to modify the instrumentality and tailor it to suit these platforms, the airdrome proscription assemblage has decided to rise its voice,” a connection from the concessionaries’ enactment said.

The connection added that the protestation seeks to item the request to support the dignity and livelihoods of thousands of Mexican families, who assertion they person consistently adhered to existent regulations.  

Taxi drivers person warned that if the instrumentality is not honored, the organized assemblage is acceptable to use unit done much protests and blockades.

What should I bash if I person a formation today?

Severe postulation disruptions are expected connected Circuito Interior, Capitán Carlos León, Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and different entree roads to the airport.

⚠️Taxistas con permiso para operar en el AICM advierten bloqueos y manifestaciones hoy a las 10:00 a.m.

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AICM has advised passengers to get astatine the airdrome earlier than accustomed and to cheque their formation presumption straight with the airline. Additionally, it advises utilizing alternate parking options, specified arsenic the Ciudad Deportiva parking batch successful Magdalena Mixhuca, and past taking the escaped shuttle to Terminal 2. 

With reports from El Financiero, Excélsior and Infobae