Jopavon From Mexico, joined Nov 2003, 304 posts, RR: 7 Reply 2, posted (8 years 12 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1448 times:
I hope that happens, since CUN is dominated by foreign carriers. Let's see if that does come true in the short term. I wonder which routes they'll be flying...fighting back UA...opening new routes...complementing AA service...operating charter scheduled service...
or, could those slots be used in order to operate the flights to Central America in case IB decided to move its MIA hub to CUN and benefit from their new alliance?
In the mean time, CUN is heating up. According to justplanes.com:
USAirways received approval for the Ft Lauderdale-Cancun route and plans to start service on July 17th with a weekly flight on Saturdays with the Airbus A319. US Airways did not receive approval for 2 other routes it had applied for, they were Washington Dulles and Baltimore to Cancun.
Frontier Airlines plans to inaugurate weekly nonstop service from Kansas City to Cancun on July 3rd, pending approval from the Mexican government. The airline would operate an Airbus A319 on this route.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31107 posts, RR: 74 Reply 5, posted (8 years 12 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1326 times:
or, could those slots be used in order to operate the flights to Central America in case IB decided to move its MIA hub to CUN and benefit from their new alliance?
There would have been zero benefit from moving from an area with strong business and O&D traffic to the area with virtually none.
Iberia entirely ruled out moving thier Central American hub to Cancun a while ago, and they recently have decided to keep it in Miami, because, once again they have come to the conclusion that there is no profitable alternative location.
EddieDude From Mexico, joined Nov 2003, 7170 posts, RR: 45 Reply 7, posted (8 years 12 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1248 times:
What is a fact is that since Mr. Fernando Chico Pardo acquired a stake in the controlling shareholder of ASUR, a brighter future seems to be opening for CUN. I understand that now that Nacional Financiera, S.N.C. is going to sell its stake, Mr. Chico Pardo is likely going to make a bid. The idea is for ASUR's controlling shareholder to be majority-owned by him and minority-owned by Copenhagen Airports. Anyway, the thing is that there are big plans to turn CUN into an important hub optimized for convenient connections.
I was unaware of the plans that NAVEGA mentions and I am very looking forward to seeing them materialize. I am sure that flights between CUN and South America can be successful. Moreover if AA codeshares on them. Hopefully an official announcement will be made soon.
Anthsaun From Mexico, joined Apr 2004, 543 posts, RR: 3 Reply 8, posted (8 years 12 months 1 day ago) and read 1210 times:
It was ratified yesterday to me that MX will center most of the charter flights at CUN. These flights will mainly cover Canada, USA and South America. Also, several regular USA destinations already served by MX will be added.
EddieDude From Mexico, joined Nov 2003, 7170 posts, RR: 45 Reply 9, posted (8 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1145 times:
Hopefully in addition to charter flights regularly scheduled service to airports in the major U.S. cities (JFK, ORD, LAX, MIA, SFO, DFW) will be started, as well as at regularly scheduled flights to at least one South American city (GRU would be awesome).
CUN and/or MX insiders, please let us know anything you hear in this regard!
Cun757 From Mexico, joined May 2004, 202 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (8 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 1114 times:
Like I tell you before the airport its getting a expansion, ASUR its building a big complex for the corporate offices right in the airport, some friend tell me weeks ago about MX have some plans to open some routes to the Caribbean from here, also to central and south America... AA And CO its also opening more destinations from here.
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