A few days ago, Mexicana de Aviacin, Mexico’s government owned airline, placed its first ”fresh” aircraft order. Now the airline — or more accurately, Mexico’s outgoing president — has revealed expansion plans for the airline, including flights to the United States.
Continue reading: Mexicana Orders Embraer E190-E2 & E195-E2, Plans International Flights
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A little unrelated but you should do a Tijuana flight and review the CBX from San Diego. Tons of value for those living in socal but most seem unaware. TIJ-SJD can be Pennies on the dollar for similar flights out of San Diego or LAX
Claudia Sheinbaum, the new elected president, is from the same party coalition as the outgoing president. Some of her projects and campaign promises are (related to transportation infrastructure and aviation) consolidate Mexicana de Aviación and the newly built airports Felipe Ángeles (NLU) and Tulum. NLU, where the new train line from the airport to Buenavista metro station in México City is almost ready, will be the main hub for Mexicana (Tulum and Tijuana being two of the main routes). Tulum a secondary hub and from there to Punta Cana, Caracas and Lima. From Tijuana to cities farther North like Portland, Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal.(already announced)
Another project is the reconstruction of the Terminal 1 in México City's Benito Juárez Intl. They already said that the terminal can't be just renewed, it needs to be rebuilt almost in its entirety.
Competitive prices without compromising on comfort, is what is going to attract more customers to Mexicana; the E2 is a comfortable modern aircraft and the configuration they announced is pretty good from a customer point of view.
The change in administration is only because of term limits preventing AMLO from standing again, the new president is from the same party.
"wonder if the country’s new administration will just drop this airline startup."
The new President is a self-admitted protege of the outgoing.
Anything can happen, but it's doubtful that her administration is going to be a radical departure on any course of policy.
Mexicana’s E2s are no threat to Aeromexico’s 787 premium cabin or cargo business.
Will the military pressure Mexican business / government to transfer their spend to Mexicana now?
TIJ-PDX is indeed bizarre. A slot that needs to be used? Competition with a SAN-PDX route? Vanity project for some politician or businessman? Should become clear over time.
Having seen the red eye Volaris PDX-GDL ticket counter and gate many times, that flight is always PACKED. I can see PDX-TIJ working, it's just not the folks who read this blog 😉
The same is true for Viva Aerobus' flights to the US. They even do weekly flights to Cancun from various cities in the US.
Mexicana is simply looking at US cities with large Mexican communities. I prefer Viva or Volaris any day over a US low cost airline.
Very odd that LAX, ONT, SAN, or even SNA are not among their expansion plans when those are easy grabs for large Mexican-American populations. I’m sure there are reasons, like other competition but they seem like easy grabs.
I welcome the competition. Fares between SFO and Mexico have become very expensive since Covid. Pre COVID I regularly bought $200 round trips. Now I rarely see anything under $500.