Miguel Castaño

Miguel spent seven years at Aeroméxico in revenue management before going independent in 2023, primarily to consult for a couple of regional aviation firms in Latin America and to write the kind of long-form aviation-business pieces he never had time to write while in-house. He still keeps a careful watch on the Mexican aviation market, which he treats with the calm interest of someone who has seen it from inside the spreadsheet.

He writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, one piece a month focused on Mexican and Central American aviation, the unresolved structural questions of the AICM-AIFA split, and the broader US-Mexico cross-border corridor that defines Mexican commercial aviation more than most coverage admits. His beat is the analyst’s view of how Mexican carriers actually make money.

He lives in Roma Norte, flies MEX more often than AIFA, and considers it both a small personal observation and a structurally important point that AIFA is gaining traffic faster than the foreign press realizes, even if it remains, for now, the wrong choice for most international travellers.