Mexicana de Aviación, a state airline operated by the Army, which on December 26 celebrated one year of operations, will stop operating to and from 8 routes starting this Monday, January 6.
In a notice published on its website, the company reported that it will stop flying to Acapulco, Campeche, Guadalajara, Ixtapa, Nuevo Laredo, Puerto Vallarta, Uruapan and Villahermosa, without giving further details about the cessation of operations to those routes.
Just last December 26, Leobardo Ávila Bojórquez, director of Mexicana de Aviación, renewed during the administration of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), reported that the airline had transported 382,011 passengers in a year of operations, close to 13% of its goal of 3 million annually set for 2027.
In addition, he announced the arrival of five new Embraer aircraft from Brazil by 2025.
The airline company, with an initial investment of 4,000 million pesos (almost 194 million dollars), started with three of its own Boeing 737-800 aircraft and two rented Embraer, with the promise of renting five more in the first two months of 2024 and the Boeing aircraft manufacturing.
In its first year of operations, the airline company had 7,217 operations, which is equivalent to 9,637 flight hours and more than 6 million kilometers traveled.
The five most in-demand routes have been those to Tijuana, Tulum, Mérida, Ixtepec and Ciudad Victoria, all from the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which López Obrador inaugurated in March 2022 to serve the Mexican capital.
In addition, the company began last October with a cargo transportation service, with which it has transported 110,234 kilograms of merchandise and with which it expects to have a 3% market share in 2030.
General José Gerardo Vega, director of the Olmeca-Maya-Mexica Airport Railway Group of Auxiliary and Related Services (Gafsacomm), estimated last June that Mexicana would transport 3 million passengers annually starting in 2027 with the gradual arrival of 20 new aircraft Embraer.
But, Ávila Bojórquez specified that a total of 5.5 million passengers will be transported between 2025 and 2028 with the arrival of the new aircraft.
With information from EFE
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