Aeromexico Reveals United States Expansion

United has the only current nonstop between the DC area and Mexico City. This is a good move to increase competition.

This is nothing but a bunch of YAWN.

The NLU stuff is new/interesting (especially MFE) but the rest of these (with the possible exception on SLC-MTY, can't remember) were all routes flown by DL or AM in the 2018-2019 timeframe. This is just bringing back some stuff that didn't work back then (for reasons including poor timing due to using AM equipment).

When will US carriers announce service to TQO (Tulum)? I bet IAH & DFW are first.

There’s a lot of talk on the Mexican side about this batch of routes being mostly resumptions but that a second batch of routes is coming up next year mostly of brand new routes and destinations, the most talked-about brand new destination being Philadelphia (PHL)

Interestingly Delta announced a BOS to MEX route in May of this year to begin in December before cancelling it recently…what a *strange* coincidence!

I just noticed that Delta has pulled its Mexico City to LAX service in January. Not sure if it is turning the route over fully to Aeromexico or if it is reducing to seasonal service.

@Thomas - Delta and AeroMexico have anti-trust immunity under their Joint Cooperation Agreement. They can legally and freely talk about which metal flies which routes and when. That was never suspended while Mexico went to Cat2; it restricted AM from starting new routes (so anything new while MX was on Cat2 had to be on DL metal) and there couldn't be codeshares between the two on them. From a strategy standpoint though, they could still do network planning in preparation for Cat2 ending.

This is great news.

I was about to book the UA nonstop MEX-IAD for ~US $850 - it’s the only nonstop offered at the moment.

I’d much rather book an AM flight and credit the points and XP to FlyingBlue, and it would be a real treat if AM brings down the fare!

Here's what I've never understood about the FAA Category issue, it's supposed to be about compliance with ICAO (and therefore internationally recognized) stands, yet no one else ever seems to have much of a problem with some of the places that the US downgrades. The most notable examples seem to be Thailand and Mexico.

Why is that?

That should read "internationally recognized STANDARDS"

Only thing keeping Tulum from being a success is getting enough yield out of it. There's more than enough demand for a daily 175 form DFW, IAH and ATL. The question is if they can get enough fare premium over CUN to make a 175 work, or enough passengers to make CUN-like fares with a $50-75 premium work. There's also a question if capacity is the route that an airline wants to go (ie running an A321) if there's enough hotel space to handle that level of capacity.

Tulum is still VERY new to the Mexico tourism scene - it's not built up a ton (even though compared to five years ago when I lived in MX, it's grown by leaps and bounds).

It's good to see AeroMexico expand.

Along with this they’ve cut frequencies to SFO from Mex. They used to fly x4 daily from MEX and x2 daily to GDL in the past but now they fly from MEX x2 and have eliminated GDL-SFO.

Yeah ! They are expanding. But right now they have cancel all the direct flights. Yes! The pilots are in strike because Aeromexico doesn’t want to pay them for OT. So now everyone that has bought tickets are getting emails w cancellation. And u still have to request your money back via email and have someone approve it even tho they are the ones who cancel. Look online it says no flights available

Very much agree with the couple of others who are very glad to see IADMEX. Here's hoping the times are better than United's on that route which seemed timed for passengers who's destination is DC rather than those of us who live here and want a nonstop option for a long weekend vacation to Mexico City (yes, speaking of myself, will make it work this upcoming President's Day but on the next jaunt to Mexico City I'll look for Aeromexico!)

As a PHL resident I hope this comes true as we need more foreign international presence.

Add tijuana to morelia direct aeromexico

I just checked the calendar out until July of next year and am not seeing any AM flights loaded yet for IAD; so it looks like all we know at this point is that they're planning on starting the service, but with no idea when at this point (as Ben pointed out in the piece, but I was just being hopeful...).

Swing a miss! Tulum airport is much closer to many hotels north of the city than Cancun airport is. Playa del Carmen is close to a wash. Anything south of it is easily served by the new airport. Think Akumal, Puerto Aventuras, etc.

I’m unaware, but it may even connect more seamlessly to the new Maya Train than CUN does (bus transfer required).

Tim Dunn, Delta shares fell 3% today. What does your fluff have to say.

Very excited for competition against UA's IAD-MEX. Flight times suck, and pricing has been astronomical, even by DC standards.

Good for the updated flights, now we can send back all the illegal immigrants to Mexico. Good work delta. NY can stop whining now

meanwhile mexicans still have to wait 900 days to get an interview for a mere b1/b2 visa for a country next door

Great job Aeromexico. We need more flights again after the ridiculous downgrade of the safety rating. Love their livery.