Aeromexico introduced flights between Mexico City NLU and Houston IAH on Monday 1 May, marking the first US route to be served out of the Mexican capital’s newest international airport – Felipe Angeles (AIFA). The 1,235-kilometre service is maintained daily by Aeromexico’s regional subsidiary Aeromexico Connect and its E190 jet. Flight AM2780 departs Mexico City […]
May 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aeromexico added a new destination in Europe on Saturday 25 March with the introduction of a nonstop service between Mexico City and Rome FCO. The 10,240-kilometre transatlantic route is served 4-weekly with the 787-8 aircraft. The SkyTeam member airline will increase frequencies between the two capital cities to 5-weekly from 1 June and to daily […]
March 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Last year Madrid ranked as Europe’s fifth busiest airport (after Istanbul IST, London LHR, Paris CDG and Amsterdam) handling 50.6m passengers. For comparison, in 2019 it also ranked fifth with 61.7m passengers, meaning that last year’s traffic was 18% lower than in the last pre-pandemic year. The dramatic drop in passenger numbers between 2011 and […]
March 13, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Mexican regional carrier Aeromar (IATA code VW) has launched a new domestic route between Mexico City MEX and Aguascalientes on Monday 5 September. It is offering daily service using its ATR 72s. It last connected these two airports in February 2014 according to Cirium schedule data. The two airports are just 420 kilometres apart and […]
September 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Mexico City’s newest airport, Felipe Ángeles International Airport (IATA code NLU), opened earlier this year on 21 March. Initially, Mexico’s three main airlines (Aeromexico, Vivaaerobus and Volaris) each operated daily service to two domestic destinations, with no route overlap. There was also a weekly service to Caracas with Conviasa, the airport’s first international route. Aeromexico […]
September 7, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Mexico City’s new airport, Aeropuerto Internacional Felipe Ángeles (IATA code NLU) opened to much fanfare on Monday 21 March 2022. A pet project of the country’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the new facility has been built on the site of a former military airfield at Santa Lucia, around 50 kilometres north-northeast of the historic […]
March 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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
Analysis of the latest available passenger numbers on airlines operating to, from and within Mexico during October 2021 shows that demand on domestic flights was just 10% below the level of 2019. This is the best performance yet during 2021. Since May, domestic traffic has been between 80% and 90% of the figure from two […]
December 20, 2021 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Compared with many countries across the globe, Mexico’s domestic air travel market recovered relatively quickly in 2020. After being more than 90% down on 2019 demand in April and May of last year, by December passenger numbers were down only 35% compared with the previous year. However, early indications for 2021 suggest that the recovery […]
May 6, 2021 | North America