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The Race is On: New Routes – Frequencies Official: Interjet Launches Mexico City-Chetumal Services Boxing and the Bicentennial Celebrations ALE Receives Two New Aircraft Volaris: New Aircraft and New Routes Alaska Airlines to Double LAX – MEX Services Mexico DF – Best Cultural Heritage Destination Global Medical Tourism Congress and Expo Opens Increase in Hotel Rooms – Occupation Levels Jazz Music in Paradise
 
The Race is On: New Routes – Frequencies

The Race is On: New Routes – Frequencies

After the withrdrawal of services by Grupo Mexicana, nowadays the Nuevo Grupo Aeronautica (NGA) -New Aeronautical Group-, the race is on between national and international carriers to fill the void of no less than 63% of the Mexican international passenger market. In all, 27 international routes were left with either little or no services. However, [...]

Official: Interjet Launches Mexico City-Chetumal Services

Official: Interjet Launches Mexico City-Chetumal Services

After performing a ‘rescue’ flight on Sunday last, to pick up passengers stranded in Chetumal as a result of the withdrawal of services by the Mexicana Group (NMA), the low-cost carrier Interjet has been granted permission –offcially- by Mexico’s Transport and Communications Secretariat (SCT) to adopt the route, according to the local state governor, Félix [...]

Boxing and the Bicentennial Celebrations

Boxing and the Bicentennial Celebrations

As part of the country’s Bicentennial Independence Celebrations, on September 11th, the world’s largest bullring, the Plaza Monumental in Mexico City, will play host to an impressive line-up of bouts in a spectacular organised by the World Boxing Council (WBC) under the name of the Gala Boxística del Bicentenario. Without doubt, boxing is one of [...]

ALE Receives Two New Aircraft

ALE Receives Two New Aircraft

Increasing its fleet, the Mexican air-taxi company, Aerolíneas Ejecutivas, last week received delivery of two new aircraft, a King Air 350i and a Hawker 4000, with the intention of attracting additional clients among the country’s businessmen and private travellers. The arrival of the two new aircraft comes at an interesting moment given the withdrawal of [...]

Volaris: New Aircraft and New Routes

Volaris: New Aircraft and New Routes

The Mexican low-cost airline, Volaris, announced last week the incorporation of two new Airbus A319 to its fleet, both with capacity for 144 passengers, which increases the fleet to 23 Airbus aircraft, 21 x A319 & 2 x A320. According to a company press release, the new aircraft will enter services next month in its [...]

Alaska Airlines to Double LAX – MEX Services

Alaska Airlines to Double LAX – MEX Services

The US carrier Alaska Airlines has announced plans to double its current daily frequency between Los Angeles (LAX) and Mexico City (MEX) to two daily flights as of October 4th. In response to the recent announcement by Mexicana that it will continue reducing its frequencies between these two cities from the current 35 to 30 [...]

Mexico DF – Best Cultural Heritage Destination

Mexico DF – Best Cultural Heritage Destination

In the first edition of the ‘Distintivo W’ Travel Awards, organised by the local radio program ‘Expedición W,’ the Cultural Minister for Mexico City, Elena Cepeda, was handed the prize for the ‘Best Cultural Heritage Destination of Mexico.’ During the award-presentation ceremony, on receiving the prize, Elena Cepeda highlighted the fact that the Mexican capital [...]

Global Medical Tourism Congress and Expo Opens

Global Medical Tourism Congress and Expo Opens

Puerto Vallarta saw Mexico’s first ‘Global Medical Tourism Congress and Expo’ open its doors to attendees yesterday, with the focus being on the safe, quality and affordable healthcare available in Mexico for foreign visitors wishing to combine a holiday whilst receiving medical treatment. The Expo, organised by the Vallarta Medical Spa and Wellness Destination, is [...]

Increase in Hotel Rooms – Occupation Levels

Increase in Hotel Rooms – Occupation Levels

Mexico’s Tourism Minister, Gloria Guevara, recently announced that, according to the latest studies released by Datatur, the number of hotel rooms available in Mexico’s principal destinations has increased by 4.6% during the first half of this year, when compared with the same period in 2009. The latest figures cover Mexico’s top-70 destinations, with the aforementioned [...]

Jazz Music in Paradise

Jazz Music in Paradise

Visitors to the Riviera Maya area will have the opportunity to attend a four-day jazz concert next month with stars such as John McClaughlin in attendance for this, the eighth edition of the Riviera Maya Jazz Festival, and the best news of all: IT’S FREE. With a truly paradisiacal backdrop of one of the world’s [...]

Mexicana Suspends Services as of Midnight

Mexicana Suspends Services as of Midnight

27 August 2010

Due to the grave financial crisis in which the Mexican airline Mexicana de Aviación finds itself, the new owners of the company: Tenedora K, have announced that services will be suspended as of midnight tonight, with the final services terminating by 12 noon tomorrow. This decision has been approved by the government with the understanding [...]

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Cancun to Host Contemporary Dance Festival

Cancun to Host Contemporary Dance Festival

26 August 2010

Cancun is to host the International Contemporary Dance Festival: Mareanza Cancun 2010, from September 22nd to November 2nd with a truly international line-up of stars. The event boasts dancers and choreographers from no less than 8 countries, among them dance companies from Argentina, France, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Venezuela, along with the renowned Mexican [...]

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New Westin, Starwood Option: Santa Fe

New Westin, Starwood Option: Santa Fe

24 August 2010

Westin Hotels return to Mexico City, opening their latest offering in conjunction with Starwood Hotels and Resorts in the ever-growing business zone of Santa Fe, within walking distance of the BBVA Bancomer Convention Center and with stunning views of the two impressive volcanoes at the other side of the city: Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl. The hotel [...]

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Mexicana de Aviación is Saved

Mexicana de Aviación is Saved

23 August 2010

Mexico’s most important airline, regarding international services: Mexicana de Aviación (CMA), with 80 years in service, was saved from bankruptcy on Friday last as the Mexican investment group Tenedora K, S.A. de C.V. obtained 95% of the company’s shares. The investment also saved the airline’s affiliates: Click Mexicana and Mexicana Link, which were also owned [...]

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Air India to Offer Flight to Cancun in 2011

Air India to Offer Flight to Cancun in 2011

20 August 2010

Mexico’s Communications and Transport Ministry (SCT) has announced that next year Air India will establish a flight from India to Cancun International Airport, after a meeting between the Mexican Tourisam Minster, Gloria Guevara, and Arvind Jadhav, the president of Air India, during her official visit to India. In addition, according to the press release, the [...]

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Win a Free Trip for Two to Swim with World’s Largest Fish

Win a Free Trip for Two to Swim with World’s Largest Fish

19 August 2010

As usual, at least for the last three years, the International Whale Shark Day will be celebrated on August 30th in an attempt to promote knowledge on, and protection to, these gentle, 50-foot giants who gorge themselves on the abundant plankton available in the crystal-clear waters of the Caribbean. Many people are aware of the [...]

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New Terminal for Monterrey Mariano Escobedo

19 August 2010

After an investment program valued at 800 million pesos, September 1st will see the new Terminal B of Mariano Escobedo International Airport of Monterrey, in Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo Leon, begin operations. During a visit to the airport, operated by the Central Northern Airport Group (OMA), the group’s Director General, Victor Bravo, commented that [...]

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Changes in Mexicana Flight Itineraries

Changes in Mexicana Flight Itineraries

17 August 2010

Given the uncertainty of the future of the Mexican airline: Mexicana de Aviación, the company has taken the decision to cancel certain routes for the time being. However, these changes are being announced, sometimes on a daily basis, so it is difficult to keep up-to-date with all the latest adjustments in the iteneraries. That said, [...]

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Frontier Airlines to Incorporate Two New Routes to Mexico

15 August 2010

The US airline, with its base in Denver, Colorado, Frontier Airlines, recently announced the incorporation of two new seasonal routes to Mexico: from Denver, it will introduce a new route to the International Airport of Los Cabos, as of December 18th, whith services running until April 16th, 2011., and from Kansas City, it will incorporate [...]

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Aero República Announces its Arrival in Mexico

Aero República Announces its Arrival in Mexico

15 August 2010

The Colombian airline Aero República has announced plans to expand its international destination network and, as part of these plans, will launch the route Bogotá-Mexico City as of October 2nd, offering daily flights. Previous to the Mexico route, the airline will incorporate the route Bogota-Guatemala City, with a stop off at Panama City, as of [...]

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