Mexico ended 2022 with 107 million passengers, making it Latin America’s biggest aviation market – even beating Brazil. It was helped by the fast growth of ULCC Volaris, which had 31 million passengers last year (at a load factor of over 85%), according to the carrier’s own figures. Traffic grew by six million year-on-year, smashing […]
February 22, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Cancun welcomed 30.3 million passengers in 2022, according to airport operator ASUR. It surpassed the 30 million level for the first time. Total traffic rose by 19% versus 2019, the previous best. While domestic and international passengers both grew by about 19%, the absolute change tells a different story. Although already by far the biggest […]
January 12, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
According to our painstaking research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 650 new routes involving at least one North American airport. This compares with over 1,250 that we identified in 2021. As travel restrictions were eased in 2021 airlines tried all sorts of interesting new routes […]
January 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Air Caraïbes (IATA code TX) launched 2-weekly service between Paris ORY and Cancún in Mexico on Saturday 22 October. The 8,225-kilometre route will operate initially on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with a third weekly service (on Mondays) being added in December. The airline will operate its A350-900s on the route. Based in Guadeloupe in the French […]
November 1, 2022 | Latest Route News +
New Dominican Republic carrier Arajet (IATA code DM) has launched two further routes to destinations in Mexico after launching its first flights to the country on 22 September. The new, Santo Domingo based airline began 3-weekly service to Cancun and 2-weekly service to Monterrey on Friday 30 September. Neither route is served by any other […]
October 4, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Volaris began serving Lima in Peru for the first time on 1 June. On that day it began daily service to the Peruvian capital from both Cancun and Mexico City using its A320neos. The 4,230-kilometre route from the Mexican capital is already served by Aeromexico (2-daily) and LATAM (daily), while the 3,810-kilometre sector from Cancun […]
June 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The Europe-Mexico market has seen considerable activity in the last few months with several airlines launching new routes, especially to Cancun, which is the gateway to Mexico’s main tourism area. While seat capacity between Europe and Mexico City increased by 75% between 2006 and 2019, capacity to Cancun increased more than fivefold. As a result, […]
February 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, North America
After a gap of over 15 years, Austrian Airlines finally resumed non-stop service to Cancun in Mexico on Sunday 24 October. The Star Alliance carrier will operate 2-weekly service (Thursdays and Sundays) on the 9,240-kilometre route from Vienna throughout the winter season, with extra flights between 19 December and 9 January. The inaugural flight (OS95) […]
October 26, 2021 | Latest Route News +