


“Mission accomplished!” Lopez Obrador crowed as the first flight took off Monday. It begins operations without a train connection, which is due to be ready next year. Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurated a new airport serving Mexico City, in a hallmark move more than three years after he scrapped a separate partly built multibillion-dollar construction project by the previous government that he said was a symbol of corruption.Ī handful of flights took off from the Felipe Angeles International Airport north of the capital on Monday as Lopez Obrador was on hand for its official opening.
