Southwest dropping Mexico City flights
Southwest Airlines will halt flights to Mexico City.
It plans on suspending services from Houston to Benito Juarez Mexico City International Airport from March 30, citing ‘better opportunities’ elsewhere.
It has been operating to Mexico City for the past four years.
"Mexico City was showing very nice improvement. It’s much more of a business market and given where we are right now, we just have better business opportunities in terms of deploying that capacity," CEO Gary Kelly said.
Lesiure routes are performing much better than business, he said.
Kelly hasn’t ruled out a return.
"We are working on better commercial capabilities in terms of marketing in foreign countries, accepting foreign currency and all of those things. We’d love for us to be back in Mexico City one of these days."
There is uncertainty over any future expansion at the overcrowded airport.
Work at the city’s new part-finished $13 billion airport was officially scrapped by Mexico’s new president, claiming it was too expensive to build and maintain.
The president’s alternative is to overhaul the existing airport and expand a second airport outside the city to meet air travel demand.
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