Volaris introduced twelve new domestic routes from Leon/Guanajuato in central Mexico during the second week of July for a total of 25 routes, 21 of which are domestic. 10 July: Hermosillo (2-weekly) 10 July: Ciudad Obregon (3-weekly) 10 July: Culiacan (3-weekly) 10 July: Torreon (3-weekly) 10 July: Tuxtla Gutierrez (3-weekly) 11 July: La Paz (2-weekly) 11 July: Los Mochis (2-weekly) […]
July 19, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The Mexican city of Monterrey has a considerable 5.4 million people in its metro area. Its airport welcomed 10.94 million passengers in 2022, 2.1% below that of 2019. That recovery is impressive given the exit of what was the airport’s third-largest carrier, Interjet, which was backfilled by enormous growth by Vivaaerobus and Aeromexico in particular. […]
June 28, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Departing seat capacity across all airports in North America (Canada, Mexico and the US) is expected to grow by just over 10% in the second quarter of this year. Some 900 airports in the region will see departing seat capacity rise from 315.2 million in April to June 2022 to 348.3 million during the same […]
March 23, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America
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 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
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 +
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
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
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for January 2022 and pre-pandemic January 2020 reveals that several airlines are now offering more seats from US airports than they did two years. The top six airlines for additional seats are two established ULCCs (Allegiant and Spirit), two new airlines (Avelo and Breeze) and two Mexican carriers (vivaaerobus and […]
January 17, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, 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
Latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports are now at around 75%-80% of the level they were back in 2019, with that figure rising to around 85% on national holidays such as Independence Day (4 July) and Labor Day (6 September). However, the biggest […]
September 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Analysis of Cirium Data and Analytics schedule information for June 2021 and June 2019 shows, for the second month running, that six of the top 12 airports with the biggest increase in the number of flights compared with two years ago are all in Florida. Fort Myers (or Southwest Florida International Airport as it brands […]
June 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story