In March 2021, President López Obrador gave the army one year to finish the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) at Santa Lucía. “Yo le voy a pedir al general Vallejo que procuremos inaugurarlo el 21 de marzo del 2022” (I am going to ask General Vallejo that we try to inaugurate it on March 21, 2022), he said, according to Excélsior.
The airport opened on March 21, 2022, after 884 days of construction, according to Expansión. At the time of the opening, few airlines had committed to flights from it. (Video in Spanish.)
The airport opened on the date the president had named a year earlier.