By KELIN DILLON As the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) degradation of Mexico’s airspace ranking from a category 1 to a category 2 continues to send shockwaves throughout the country’s flight sector, director of the International Civil Aviation Training Center (CIAAC) Benjamin Romero has found himself the latest casualty of the ongoing saga. Romero was asked to peacefully leave his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Getting to the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Santa Lucía from downtown Mexico City could take up to two and a half hours and cost up to 1,839 pesos if you choose to use a private driver platform during peak hours, such as on a Friday payday, according to a report published Monday,
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XINHUA As of Monday, Sept. 27, Israel will lift its covid-19 travel ban for Mexico, the Israeli Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday, Sept. 20. Notwithstanding, the existing ban on Israelis flying to Brazil, Bulgaria and Turkey will remain intact, the ministry said. Israeli citizens and permanent residents who want to travel to the three countries must
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With the reopening of Canada to nonessential travel, Air Canada began restarting flights between Mexico and the Land of the Maple Leaf this week, but said it has no plans to use President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial pet project of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) in Santa Lucia. During an online media conference on Wednesday,
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By KELIN DILLON While the vaccine against covid-19 has been made widely available to citizens and foreign residents of Mexico alike, obtaining government endorsed proof of full inoculation that allows for foreign travel to places like Europe and Canada has been all but impossible, thanks to failures in the government’s online certificate portal. The portal, which requires recipients of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a complicated, modern, post-covid-19 world — with mandatory PCR tests and vaccination passport requirements — travel, especially overseas, has become a potential logistics nightmare for many vacationers. Fortunately, Universal Assistance (UA) has an app for that. UA’s new mobile application, called Autogestión Médica Mobile (Mobile Medical Self-Management), allows clients to manage their own medical
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By RICH GRANT We did not want to go to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After all, it had taken us a lot of time and effort just to get to Krakow. The sun was out, and it was a perfect day. Pretty Polish girls walked by in summer dresses. The cafes of Old Town were buzzing and there were buskers singing and juggling
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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
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department, in cooperation with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), issued a Level 3 “reconsider travel to Mexico” advisory on Monday, July 12, due to surging covid-19 infections and increased crime levels. The advisory came as covid cases in Mexico continue to rise, with more than 11,000 new cases recorded on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican hotel and restaurant chain Grupo President will add the Cielo Winery & Resort in Valle de Guadalupe to its 22-property portfolio as of Sept. 1, the group announced Monday, June 29. The new hotel and winery were developed as a vino tourism project by Gustavo Ortega Joaquín, the resort’s general director, and
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