FAA Rebuke Spurs Mexico to Add Back Air Safety Inspectors Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Max de Haldevang and Alan Levin (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s civil aviation authority is getting a budget lift of about 40% and hiring 180 new inspectors, an effort it hopes will reverse a U.S. air-safety downgrade that the agency’s director acknowledged was partly prompted by spending cuts. Popular Searches The roughly 150 million-peso ($7.5 million) increase will also go to raise wages and improve flight crew training in English, according to Carlos Antonio Rodriguez Munguia, the head of Mexico’s Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC). Both are areas the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration found to be inadequate, along with lack of inspectors, Rodriquez told Bloomberg News in an interview.