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The rescue of the air line national icon
Mexicana
By: Carlos Damián March 4, 2012
Perspectives of the national rescue
México. - After 17 months of the cease of operations of the airline, after that the judge Felipe Consuelo Soto (FCS), of the mercantile contest, accredited the existence and licit document of 300 million of dollars intended for to capitalize it near working with 18 months without income, suicides, social movements and marches in the D. F. and some working have been extradited abroad for they would to have fixed income. With the advertisement issued the Friday past, 24 of February on the rescue of the Mexican Aviation Company, S. A. (Mexicana) on the part of group Atlantic Med, it is in principle good news for the workers of the company.

From makes approximately a Mexican year stop of flying by caprice of the federal government - according to denounces in its moment the union of Mexican workers union- through Ministry of work and social provision (STPS), and near Gaston Azcarraga; it has treated us the time and the inflation to the users an increase in 40 percent in the costs of the plane ticket. In this social wear of the workers through hunger and the federal authorities of the branch, whose credibility depends, in good part, of the fact that achieve be fulfilled it restart it of operations of the most ancient airline of the nation.

Rescue to Mexicana
Upon participating in the referred advertisement, the leadership of the Communications and Transportation Secretariat (SCT, in Spanish), Dionisio Perez - Jacome, indicated that the date to restart of operations of the air company "is in function of the periods that brand the law of mercantile contests" and that the dependency to his charge must "to certify the technical capacities, legal, administrative and financial" of the company. To reservation of waiting that are fulfilled such periods, the yesterday’s advertisement compels to recall that the principal obstacle up until now so that Mexican recapture the flight has not been the lack of investors interested, but the dirt and the confusion that it has prevailed during the long mercantile contest process.

In effect and in contrast of the interest expressed by the federal authorities makes more than a year, that the aeronautical company "return to fly as soon as possible", the workers of the company have been denouncing in these various month actions of the federal government that was seeming were guided to avoid the salvage of the company, in this federal delays rosary, it have: the introduction of additional and discretionary requirements to the potential investors, the pressures of the Judicial brand to remove to the commissioned judge of the mercantile contest, being the superintendent of the legal process - administrative, and recently , the official ambiguity before the return request of the routes and the slots - hourly of takeoff and landing - of the airline.

The air lines Interjet and Volaris are opposed that return to the market
On this follow-up of the workers to begin to fly, the second challenge is the routes return and slots with which will restart its operations, and on what the SCT already has a commitment, according to the document shown by Ricardo Valle, general secretary of the Union Stewardesses Association of aviation. The slots of at least 40 routes that operated Mexican now are being them exploited by Interjet, Volaris, Aeromexico and VivaAerobus, but are found under measures judicial dictations by the first tenth judge of district in administrative matter, FCS, who makes a pair of weeks he order to the SCT its recovery so that they will be delivered to Mexican in how much return to the market.

The order of the judge was not well received by the airlines, Interjet promoted a protection. It is anticipated that Mexican will return to the market in a way annotated by the competition that represents Interjet and Volaris, concerning VivaAerobus will not be affected since alone has the route of Monterrey, Aeromexico in this circumstance always had a clear strategy and in the national market with Mexican ever they were hindered.

Perspectives of the rescue
With practices of the federation about of the managing of this air line, sowed in the Mexican citizen the impression of the fact that the bankruptcy was not necessarily a undesirable stage for them, and that were seeking with their behavior to deter to the groups of investors that expressed their interest in recapturing it and to benefit and to strengthen to their competitors and to foreign air consortiums. To cover that deterioration in the image and the credibility of the authorities of the branch, what is originating is that the government, before the perspective of the Mexican rescue are offered all the facilities to the financial group so that in the process is fulfilled and the airline return to operate as soon as possible.

In this questionable context of the federal government the performance of the judge FCS, all the time gave samples of his arrangement of employing the legal resources to its scope to obtain it and restart it of Mexican operations exhibiting with its actions the will to prefer the common good by on the pressures and the particular interest, elements that they do not tend deal by what is common in the area of the national justice. The company that is had to capitalize to Mexican is supposed that it is made in adverse situations: the disadvantage of have stayed approximately a year without activity some, but was given continually the maintenance to the facilities and scarce planes that yet remain to it. Its workers insole reduced of 8 thousand 500 to 2 thousand 600; aircraft of 112 to 7. Good luck. (La Jornada, opinion, p.p. 2 - 6, February 25, 2012).