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Aeroméxico Cancelations Cause Chaos in Mexico City Airport
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A slew of multiple flight cancellations due to covid-19 infections of Aeroméxico flight attendants and pilots caused chaos at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) over the weekend, as thousands of passengers were left stranded. According to the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco), between Friday, Jan. 7, and Sunday, Jan. 9, the nation’s flagship
Read moreAeroméxico Drops $80.4 in Value Over Two Days
By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s flag carrier airline, Aeroméxico, experienced massive losses at the end of last week, losing more than $80.4 million in value over the course of two days and dropping stock prices to 1.66 pesos per share, the airline’s lowest share price in history. While having a $118.6 million market share as of Wednesday, Dec. 15, Aeroméxico lost
Read moreAeroméxico Stands Firm on Decision to Not Use Santa Lucía Airport
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Aeroméxico, Mexico’s largest airline, reiterated Friday, Nov. 19, that it will continue to use exclusively the Benito Juárez International Airport for all its flights into and out of Mexico City. The announcement came as a blow to the administration of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who has invested vast amounts of political
Read moreMexico’s Airfares Increase by 43.9 Percent in 2021
By KELIN DILLON According to the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) of Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), airfares increased by 43.9 percent during the country’s second economic quarter of 2021 compared to the year previous. The surge in price can be explained due to several factors — first and foremost, because flights during the second quarter of
Read moreNew Air Cargo Route Opens between Mexico City and Wuhan
XINHUA A regular air cargo route between Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei Province, and Mexico City on Saturday, May 8. The route will be operated twice a week by Aeroméxico, one of the largest airlines in Latin America, according to Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. Some 3,500 tons of cargo are expected to be delivered via the route annually.
Read moreAeroméxico to Offer Flights from Mexico City to Chetumal
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s leading airlines, Aeroméxico, announced Wednesday, Nov. 11, that it will begin offering direct daily flights between Mexico City and Chetumal, the capital of the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, as of Wednesday, Dec. 9. With this addition, Aeroméxico will offer a total of 130 weekly flights to Quintana Roo — Cancun and Chetumal
Read moreInterjet Cancels All Flights for Sunday, Nov. 1
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The low-cost Mexican air carrier Interjet abruptly canceled all flights programmed for Sunday, Nov. 1. In a brief message sent out to all scheduled passengers, Interjet announced that the entirety of its 19 flights for Sunday would be suspended and reprogrammed starting on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The airline, based out of Mexico City, also
Read moreMexico Receives Second Plane of Supplies from China
XINHUA A shipment of 11 tons of medical supplies arrived in Mexico from China late Friday, April 10, to help the country address the Covid-19 pandemic, Mexican authorities said. Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said via his Twitter account that an Aeroméxico Boeing 787-8 aircraft had transported the shipment, which included 1.9 million face masks and 820,000 surgical masks. “The
Read moreMexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO Reverse Remittances While the Central Bank of Mexico has already begun whining about the potential drop in dollar-denominated remittances from the roughly 36 million Mexican workers in the United States, down to $29 billion in 2020, its U.S. counterpart, the Federal Reserve (Fed) is reporting that as of last January and through Thursday, April 2, Mexican investors
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