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WestJet denies flight 254 from Vancouver to Puerto Vallarta was hijacked

WestJet (Calgary) has issued this statement:

WestJet can confirm that a rumor that WestJet flight 2154 from Vancouver to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, was hijacked on January 10 is completely false.

The rumor stemmed from a tweet by a flight-tracking website that the aircraft operating the flight was transmitting a hijack code via its transponders. However, at this point in time, WestJet has no evidence that such a code was ever transmitted. Both the flight crew and local air traffic control confirm that no such code was ever sent or received, and testing on the aircraft’s transponder shows it is (and was) functionally normally. WestJet cannot speak to rumour, speculation or comments that suggest otherwise.

The aircraft arrived in Puerto Vallarta as scheduled and is now operating its scheduled flight back to Canada. WestJet would like to thank everyone for their concern for our guests and crew during this incident.

Copyright Photo: Chris Sands/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-8CT C-GKWJ (msn 34151) with Aviation Partners Boeing Split Scimitar Winglets arrives back at the Calgary home.

WestJet aircraft slide show:

Southwest Airlines to operate its largest schedule ever next summer, up to 3,800 flights a day

Southwest Airlines (Dallas) has extended its flight schedule for travel through August 7, 2015, adding new, nonstop service in cities across the United States:

Southwest 12.20.14 graph 1

Southwest Airlines also began selling seats on daily service between Orange County/Santa Ana and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and seasonal, Saturday-only service between Baltimore/Washington (BWI) and San Jose del Cabo/Los Cabos, Mexico, beginning June 7, 2015 through August 7, 2015. Both routes subject to government approval.

The June and July schedule is the biggest in the history of Southwest Airlines with as many as 3,800 flights a day.

The flight schedule extension for early Summer 2015 also brings additional seasonal flights effective June 7, 2015 (unless otherwise noted), including nonstop service between:

Southwest 12.20.14 Graph 2

Copyright Photo: Tony Storck/AirlinersGallery.com. Now repainted, Boeing 737-3H4 N654SW (msn 28399) arrives at Baltimore/Washington (BWI).

Southwest Airlines aircraft slide show (new livery only):

http://airlinersgallery.smugmug.com/Airlines-UnitedStates-3/Airlines-United-States3-QZ/Southwest-Airlines-Current

Interjet expands its Miami operations

Interjet (Mexico City) is expanding its operations in Miami. The airline is launching a new route connecting Cancun with Miami International Airport (MIA) on December 18. The new route will operate six days a week.

The carrier’s regular Mexico City-Miami will be increased to 18 flights a week on January 7, 2015.

Copyright Photo: Jay Selman/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-214 XA-BAV (msn 5372) arrives in Miami.

Interjet aircraft slide show:

http://airlinersgallery.smugmug.com/Airlines-Mexico/Airlines-Mexico-AZ/Interjet

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Current routes from Mexico City:

Interjet 12.2014 MEX Route Map

 

AeroMexico starts nonstop Monterrey-New York flights

AeroMexico (Mexico City) has started new daily and nonstop service to Monterrey, Mexico from New York (JFK) on Embraer 190 jet airliners with 99 passenger seats, 11 of which are in Clase Premier, AeroMexico’s business class cabin.

This new route is in addition of AeroMexico’s five daily flights from New York (JFK) to Mexico City โ€“ one in codeshare with Delta Air Lines – and to its daily nonstop service to Cancun.

Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing/AirlinersGallery.com. Embraer ERJ 190-100LR XA-EAC (msn 19000145) arrives in Los Angeles.

AeroMexico Connect aircraft slide show:

http://airlinersgallery.smugmug.com/Airlines-Mexico/Airlines-Mexico-AZ/AeroMexico-Connect

Spirit Airlines announces a major expansion at Houston; 10 new destinations

Spirit Airlines (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood) hasย announced it will be expanding its nonstop
service to ten new destinations beginning in the Spring of 2015. Theย new locations include domestic cities including Tampa,ย Baltimore/Washington, DC and Oakland, and sevenย destinations in Latin America including Mexico, Costa Rica, Elย Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua (International routes are subject toย foreign governmental approval).

New U.S. Destinations
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Destination Start Date Frequency
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Tampa (TPA) March 26, 2015 Daily
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Baltimore/Washington, DC (BWI) March 27, 2015 Daily
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Oakland/San Francisco Bay (OAK)* April 16, 2015 Daily
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New Mexican Destinations**
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Destination Start Date Frequency
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Cancun, Mexico (CUN) May 7, 2015 3 per week
Increases to daily on June 11, 2015
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Los Cabos, Mexico (SJD)* May 7, 2015 2 per week
Increases to 4 per week on June 11, 2015
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Toluca/Mexico City, Mexico (TLC)* May 7, 2015 2 per week
Increases to 3 per week on June 11, 2015
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New Central American Destinations**
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Destination Start Date Frequency
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Managua, Nicaragua (MGA) May 28, 2015 3 per week
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San Jose, Costa Rica (SJO) May 28, 2015 4 per week
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San Pedro Sula, Honduras (SAP) May 28, 2015 3 per week
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San Salvador, El Salvador (SAL) May 28, 2015 4 per week
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* Routes served for summer season only

** International routes areย subject to foreign governmental approval

These new destinations are in addition to the 12 nonstop cities Spirit
currently offers from Houston, which includes Atlanta, Chicagoย (O’Hare), Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Losย Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, Orlando, and San Diego,ย along with connecting service to an additional 17 cities.

Copyright Photo: Ken Petersen/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A329-132 N502NK (msn 2433) arrives in Las Vegas in the new look.

Spirit Airlines aircraft slide show:ย AG Slide Show

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Existing and new routes from IAH:

Spirit IAH 11.2014 Route Map

Southwest Airlines files to serve the Orange County-Puerto Vallarta route

Southwest Airlines (Dallas) has filed its application with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide daily, nonstop service between John Wayne Airport, Orange County (SNA) and Lic. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport (PVR) in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, beginning June 7, 2015, subject to approvals from relevant governmental agencies.

In addition, Kelly announced the Company’s plans to add Saturday service between Baltimore/Washington International Airport and San Jose del Cabo/Los Cabos, Mexico, beginning on June 13, 2015, subject to approvals from relevant governmental agencies.

Additionally the airline will start daily Kansas City-New York (LaGuardia) flights on April 8, 2015.

Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-8H4 N8645A (msn 36907) with the Split Scimitar Winglets arrives in Los Angeles.

Southwest Airlines aircraft slide show:ย AG Slide Show

Alaska Airlines expands its seasonal route network from the Pacific Northwest to Mexico

Alaska Airlines (Seattle/Tacoma) this week will begin service from the Pacific Northwest to Mexico, just in time for winter. The airline kicks off its new nonstop service between Seattle/Tacoma and Cancun on November 6. Flights will operate daily through April 27, 2015. The airline also is offering new nonstop flights from Portland, Oregon, to Puerto Vallarta starting November 4 through April 26, 2015 and to Los Cabos starting Nov. 20 through April 27, 2015.

Alaska 11.2014 Mesxico Expansion Graph

All times are based on local time zones.

Alaska Airlines began flying to Mexico a quarter century ago and now operates 240 flights a week during the winter between the West Coast and Mexicoโ€”more than any other carrier. Alaska flies an average of 1.5 million passengers a year to seven Mexico beach destinationsโ€”Cancun, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Loreto, Los Cabos, Manzanillo, Mazatlรกn and Puerto Vallartaโ€”in addition to Guadalajara and Mexico City.

Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-890 N590AS (msn 35887) with Aviation Partners Boeing Split Scimitar Winglets departs from Anchorage bound for Seattle/Tacoma.

Alaska Airlines Aircraft Slide Show:ย AG Slide Show

AeroMexico to add more flights to both Miami and Orlando

AeroMexico (Mexico City) has announced its second daily flight to Orlando and its fourth daily service to Miami from its main hub at the Mexico City International Airport.

Starting on November 3, the airline will add one more daily flight between Mexico City and Orlando, which primary benefit will be seen in the connectivity offered from the nation’s capital to Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Villahermosa in Mexico, and to Lima, Santiago, and Sao Paulo, among other destinations in Latin America.

The aircraft to be used for these flights are Boeing 737 with 124 seats, 12 in Clase Premier, Aeromexico’s business class cabin.

AeroMexico will also add its fourth daily flight to the Mexico City – Miami route as of November 13, served with Boeing 737 airplanes. This new service will allow U.S.-origin passengers to connect to destinations such as Acapulco, Aguascalientes, and Oaxaca in Mexico, and Bogota, Guatemala, and San Jose, south of the border, among others.

AeroMexico will now offer a total of 48 weekly flights from the Mexican capital city to the State of Florida in the United States, with close to 6,000 seats per week between those destinations.

Copyright Photo: Jay Selman/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-852 XA-AMC (msn 36704) arrives in New York (JFK).

AeroMexico:ย AG Slide Show

AeroMexico to add nonstop Monterrey-New York JFK flights as it celebrates 80 years

AeroMexico 80 Anos Banner (LRW)

AeroMexico (Mexico City) has announced new service from Monterrey International Airport to New York through Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The new AeroMexico Connect service will start on December 8 with 99-seat Embraer 190.

AeroMexico continues to work to position Monterrey as one of its main hubs, providing more options and better connectivity to 23 destinations including Chihuahua, Hermosillo, San Luis Potosi, Tampico and Torreon in Mexico; Tokyo, Japan and six destinations in the United States including San Antonio, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Detroit, the last two operated by SkyTeam airline alliance partner Delta Air Lines.

The flag carrier issued this statement about its 80th anniversary:

AeroMexico is celebrating its 80th anniversary as Mexico’s flagship carrier and thanks its passengers, vendors, commercial partners, airport groups, trade unions and employees, who have placed their trust in the company over eight decades to position the brand as Mexico’s leading airline.

Since its beginnings in 1934, when AeroMexico (formerly Aeronaves de Mexico) flew its maiden flight between Mexico City and Acapulco, the carrier has been committed to providing the best services and maintaining continuous quality improvement processes to benefit its customers.

Over the past 80 years, AeroMexico has operated the best fleet with emblematic jet airliners, such as Bristol Britannia, Douglas aircraft, Lockheed Constellation, McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, Embraer and Boeing aircraft, to name a few. Currently, in keeping with tradition since its creation, AeroMexico has one of the world’s most modern fleets with an average age of 8.8 years, and is proud to operate the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, hailed as the airplane that revolutionized the aviation industry.

The carrier has obtained many achievements and rewards along the way. For half a century, the airline was the carrier of choice selected by the Presidents of Mexico; it carried Pope John Paul II on his first trip to Mexico, and was the first Mexican airline to fly to New York, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Tokyo. It was also the first to offer an all-inclusive travel package program, known as Gran Plan, the first to implement a passenger loyalty program in Latin America, known as Club Premier, the first in Latin America to be a founding member of a global airline alliance, SkyTeam, and the first Mexican airline in which a global carrier, Delta Air Lines, buys equity.

AeroMexico has always been known for its unrelenting pursuit of cutting edge technology. As such, it will soon become the first airline in Latin America to provide inflight Wi-Fi through a partnership with Panasonic and Gogo.

AeroMexico has also become the Mexican airline carrying the highest customer traffic volume in the domestic market and the leader in the international segment, as it serves 44 destinations in Mexico and 35 internationally, and carried more than 11.5 million passengers between January and August 2014.

As part of the carrier’s celebration, AeroMexico CEO Andres Conesa published a special appreciation statement, noting that “The experience and career paths of all our employees bear testimony to the fact that AeroMexico is in the hands of the most valuable people in Mexican aviation. The value of our human capital is the basis of our prestige, and our customers are the reason for our existence.”

To those that have chosen AeroMexico as their carrier of choice over the years and to those flying with the airline for the very first time, the carrier expresses its gratitude and reiterates its commitment to being the best airline, uniting all Mexicans and Mexico with the world.

Images: AeroMexico. The company is celebrating 80 years of flying this year.

AeroMexico:ย AG Slide Show

AeroMexico logo timeline:

AeroMexico 80-Year Timeline

 

Los Cabos and La Paz, Mexico Airports damaged by Hurricane Odile

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacรญfico logo

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacรญfico, S.A.B. de C.V. (GAP), the operator of the airports at La Paz and Los Cabos in Baja, Mexico, has issued this statement late on September 15:

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacรญfico, S.A.B. de C.V. (PAC) informs that operations at the Los Cabos and La Paz International Airports were suspended as of yesterday afternoon, September 14, 2014, as Hurricane Odile, a Category 3 storm, struck the area of Baja California.

Fernando Bosque, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated, โ€œOur main concern is the safety of our passengers and employees. As such, we are fully cooperating with the state and federal authorities to ensure that are precautions are taken. Flights have been suspended since yesterday afternoon; at this time we are not fully aware of the extent of the damage to the operations and will keep the community posted as information becomes available. Our goal is to resume normal operations as soon as is possible.โ€

The Company is currently in the process of surveying the airports in order to determine the extent of the damage. Once additional information is available, GAP will be issuing an updated press release.

Activities at GAPโ€™s 10 other airports are operating normally.

Several small aircraft are believed to have been destroyed.

Pictures of the damage to the terminal at Los Cabos: CLICK HEREย and CLICK HERE