Mexico’s busiest airline, Volaris, introduced a new transborder service between Tijuana and Las Vegas on Tuesday 29 October. The 425-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, with its A320 fleet. The LCC faces no competition on the route. Flight Y43700 departs Tijuana at 15:50 local time, arriving in Las Vegas at […]
November 7, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Situated by the US border across from San Diego, Tijuana is Mexico’s fifth-busiest airport. It had 13.18 million passengers in 2023, up by a considerable 48% versus 2019. Traffic even rose by 7% year-on-year. This development has been from the domestic market and was driven by Volaris and Viva Aerobus. Tijuana gets its first US […]
February 27, 2024 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
American commenced flights between Phoenix and Tijuana in Mexico on Thursday 15 February. The 475-kilometre route will be maintained daily with the 76-seat E175 aircraft operated by American’s capacity provider SkyWest Airlines under the American Eagle brand. It faces no competition between the two cities. Flight AA4841 is wheels up from Phoenix at 11:15 local […]
February 26, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Mexico’s Vivaaerobus launched two new domestic routes from Tijuana to Oaxaca and Puebla, on Friday 20 October. The 2,665-kilometre service to Oaxaca will be maintained daily, while the 2,375-kilometre flight to Puebla will run 12-weekly with a 2-daily service each day except on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Both will be operated by the A320-famly aircraft. The airline will compete […]
October 23, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
Mexico’s domestic air travel market is just about back at pre-pandemic levels, based on analysis of passenger data (to October) and capacity data for more recent months. Since June 2020, the country has seen an almost continuous improvement in its recovery rate when compared with the same months in 2019. Passenger data for October showed […]
February 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America