Viva Aerobus increases its offer at the new Mexico City airport

Viva Aerobus continues to diversify its offer in the Metropolitan Area of ​​the Valley of Mexico for the convenience of passengers with the announcement of four new routes from the new Airport in Mexico City, Felipe Ángeles (AIFA), to Hermosillo, Ixtapa Zihuatanejo, Mazatlán and Vallarta Port. Likewise, as a result of the good market response, the airline will increase the number of flights it offers in its services from Felipe Ángeles International Airport to Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca and Acapulco; and, during the summer, it will also increase the frequencies to Tijuana and Cancun.

“The first-class competitiveness, service and infrastructure offered by this new airport is giving firm results; Proof of this is the continued growth of Viva Aerobus, thus connecting thousands of passengers with national and international destinations at very attractive prices”, said General Isidoro Pastor, General Director of AIFA. "This great news is one more way to celebrate the airport's recent anniversary and move towards our passenger traffic goals for 2023," he added.

The routes to Hermosillo, Ixtapa Zihuatanejo and Mazatlán will begin on July 2; and that to Puerto Vallarta will begin on July 14. The route to Hermosillo will have four flights a week; services to Ixtapa Zihuatanejo and Mazatlán will offer three weekly flights; and the route to Puerto Vallarta will have a daily flight. All these services will be operated with Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft that are part of the youngest fleet in Mexico, and the fourth in North America, with an average age of only 5 years.

For its part, just eight months after the inauguration of the routes from AIFA to the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero, and in support of the industry's effort to improve connectivity, Viva also decided to increase the frequencies on them. As of July 1, the airline will operate a daily flight on its Mexico City (AIFA) – Puerto Escondido route, currently offering three frequencies a week. Likewise, its services to Acapulco and Oaxaca transit from two weekly flights to four, starting on July 1 and 3, respectively.

During the summer, in order to meet the connectivity needs of this holiday season, the airline will increase the number of flights it offers on its routes from this new capital airport to Tijuana, now with two flights a day instead of one; and to Cancun with three frequencies each day, instead of two.   

“We have already added eleven routes from the new Mexico City Airport (AIFA) and soon we will be operating more than 50 flights a week, thus strengthening the connectivity of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico and supporting an important infrastructure and mobility project. of our Government”, affirmed Juan Carlos Zuazua, General Director of Viva Aerobus. “We want more and more passengers to be able to fly, in new planes, with direct flights and with the lowest prices, wherever they want, from wherever they want and with various schedule options for their total comfort,” he added.

This increase in services from AIFA is designed to provide passengers with more options to easily transport from different points of the Mexican capital. As a result, the airline already has eleven routes to/from the new airport, just over a year after it was inaugurated, flying to Acapulco, Cancun, Havana, Monterrey, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido, Tijuana and, soon, Hermosillo. , Ixtapa Zihuatanejo, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta.