Aeromexico To Increase Seats From Mexico City’s New Airport 400%

Aeromexico

IATA/ICAO Code

AM/AMX

Airline Type

Full Service Carrier

Hub(s)

Mexico City International Airport

Year Founded

1934

Alliance

SkyTeam

Airline Group

Grupo Aeromexico

CEO

Andrés Conesa Labastida

Country

Mexico

Grupo Aeromexico, the Mexican carrier, has announced an increase of 400% in the number of seats offered from Mexico City’s new Felipe Angeles International Airport (NLU). The airline will add several new routes beginning in August. Let’s investigate further.

New routes

Earlier this month, Mexican airlines and authorities met to discuss the improvement of Mexico City’s airspace.

During the meeting, both sides agreed to increase the connectivity from the recently inaugurated Felipe Ángeles International Airport by having up to 100 operations (up from the 12-14 current operations by four carriers).

Viva Aerobus was the first airline to announce new flights from NLU, including the first international route operated by a Mexican carrier to Havana, Cuba.

Aeromexico has now joined the route party by announcing six new routes to be launched between August and September. These new services are all domestic.

Aeromexico will also increase the number of weekly flights on the routes it already has from NLU.

Aeromexico will launch six new routes from the Felipe Ángeles International Airport. Photo: Guillermo Quiroz Martínez via @gquimar.

The routes to the detail

Starting on August 15, these are the routes to be operated by Aeromexico:

1. Acapulco (ACA), one daily flight.
2. Cancun (CUN), one daily flight. This route will be the busiest one from the airport, also operated by Volaris and Viva Aerobus.
3. Guadalajara, two daily flights. Competing directly with Viva Aerobus’ daily flight.
4. Monterrey, two daily flights, also competing directly with Viva Aerobus.
5. Oaxaca, one daily flight.
6. Mérida, already served, will be kept as it currently is with one daily flight.
7. Puerto Vallarta, to be increased from four weekly flights to one daily.
8. Villahermosa, to be increased from three weekly flights to one daily. Interestingly enough, this route originally had one daily flight but performed poorly (19% load factor), so Aeromexico reduced the number of frequencies, and now it will increase them again.
9. Veracruz, to be opened in September. More details to come later.

Most of these routes will be operated with Aeromexico’s Embraer fleet, most likely, although not formally announced yet. Aeromexico’s Embraer E190 aircraft have a capacity for 99 passengers.

Viva Aerobus and Aeromexico have announced new routes from Mexico City’s newest airport. Photo: Daniel Martínez Garbuno | Simple Flying.

More routes but zero new airlines

Aeromexico, Viva Aerobus, and Volaris have all pledged to increase their connectivity from NLU. So far, the first two have already announced their new routes. Volaris has not, but it is expected to do so shortly.

Nonetheless, the Mexican government has failed to attract a new airline so far. The Felipe Ángeles International Airport remains with four commercial carriers, the three Mexican operators, and Venezuela’s Conviasa.

According to the agreement made by the airline industry, the domestic cargo operators should move shortly to NLU. We are talking about carriers like Más (with its Airbus A330F fleet) and Estafeta, for instance. The international cargo operators could move in the near future to the new airport. The government plans to ease the number of hourly operations at Mexico City Benito Juárez International.

Following the summer season, any new flight that could be launched in Mexico City will have to be operated from either NLU or the Toluca International Airports.

Earlier this week, Viva Aerobus announced the resumption of commercial services from Toluca after years of not flying from Mexico City’s third airport.

Would you like to travel with Aeromexico to one of these destinations from the newest Felipe Ángeles Airport? Let us know in the comments below.

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