Low-Cost Mexican Carriers Could be Big Winners with New Aviation Deal Robert Silk - Travel Weekly
go to original January 4, 2016

The biggest beneficiaries of the new aviation agreement between the U.S. and Mexico might be the burgeoning low-cost Mexican airlines, such as Interjet, Volaris and VivaAerobus, according to airline industry analyst Bob Mann of R.W. Mann & Co.

The liberalized agreement would place no limits on the number of carriers that can serve any U.S.-Mexico city pair. Such conditions are a marked changed from the existing aviation agreement between the two countries, which limits the number of carriers to two or three from each country per route.

Mexico’s senate must still ratify the agreement before it can take effect.

Intejet, which launched U.S. service in 2012, currently flies to five U.S. cities: Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Houston and San Antonio. Volaris launched transborder service in 2009 and flies to 20 U.S. destinations. VivaAerobus has had less success with transborder service, cutting several U.S. routes last year. It currently flies to Houston from Monterrey.

Midsize Mexican cities also could be big winners, Mann said.

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