Mexicana de Aviación is reviewing its strategic operations plan for 2025, which is why it suspended the operation of eight of its routes, justified president Claudia Sheinbaum in her conference.
“A review of its strategic plan for 2025 is being carried out, as in any company, of which are the routes that had the most passengers and which are the routes that had the least. This week they are going to present the master plan to me,” he commented.
Sheinbaum ruled out that the closure of eight Mexicana routes endangers its operation. “Mexicana is going to continue being the company of the people of Mexico, it will continue to fly,” he said.
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The president added that the suspension of routes is also due to the fact that Mexicana, a state airline operated by the Army that has just completed one year of operations, has to renew the aircraft rental contracts for its flights.
Mexicana only has three of its own aircraft and a couple more are rented from TAR, a company based in Querétaro that provides wet leasing. This small fleet allows the company to carry out only 19 operations a day, according to official data.
Mexicana agreed to purchase 20 aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer, and five of them will be delivered in 2025. The acquisition of the aircraft will cost around 20 billion pesos, a figure that does not take into account the operating costs related to the operation. of the airline.
What will be the routes that Mexicana no longer operates since January 6?
- Acapulco.
- Logwood.
- Guadalajara.
- New Laredo.
- Puerto Vallarta.
- Uruapan.
- Villahermosa.
Just on December 26, Leobardo Ávila Bojórquez, director of Mexicana de Aviación, reactivated during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stated that the airline had transported 382,011 passengers in a year of operations, about 13% of its goal of 3 million annually planned for 2027.
Mexicana de Aviación, the first airline in the country’s history, resumed operations on December 26, 2023 after its bankruptcy in 2010 and the rescue of AMLO, who handed over its control to the Army.
In its first year of operations, the airline had 7,217 operations to and from the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which AMLO inaugurated for the Mexican capital, which was equivalent to 9,637 flight hours and more than 6 million kilometers traveled. but less than 1% of the market share.
With information from Forbes, EFE and Reuters.
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