Mexicana de Aviación celebrates one year with 13% of its passenger goal set for 2027 • Business • Forbes México

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Mexicana de Aviación, a state airline operated by the Army, celebrates its first year this Thursday with 382,011 passengers transported, about 13% of its goal of 3 million annually set for 2027, and the arrival of five new Embraer aircraft from Brazil.

The airline company had 7,217 operations, which was equivalent to 9,637 flight hours and more than 6 million kilometers traveled, said Leobardo Ávila Bojórquez, director of Mexicana de Aviación, at the daily Government conference.

The five most in-demand routes, he detailed, have been to Tijuana, Tulum, Mérida, Ixtepec and Ciudad Victoria, all from the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which was inaugurated in March 2022 by the then president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to serve to the Mexican capital.

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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 hopes to have a 3% market share in 2030.

The manager highlighted that the airline offers tickets with a cost up to 20% lower than that of private competitors.

“Through the federal government’s own strategies to encourage domestic consumption, the economy has been reactivated, and that has allowed older Mexicans to travel and have that feeling of connectivity that Mexicana offers,” said Ávila Bojórquez.

The current president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, recalled that Mexicana de Aviación, the first airline in the country’s history, resumed operations on December 26 after its bankruptcy in 2010 and the rescue of López Obrador, who handed over its control to the Army.

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 planes Embraer.

Now, Ávila Bojórquez specified that a total of 5.5 million passengers will be transported between 2025 and 2028 with the arrival of the aircraft.

“Five airplanes will arrive next year, 2025, five more airplanes will arrive out of the 20 that were acquired, Embraer airplanes from Brazil, they were acquired for Mexicana de Aviación,” commented Sheinbaum.

With information from EFE

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