IAD51FL From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 343 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3358 times:
Acidradio From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1855 posts, RR: 10 Reply 2, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2938 times:
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To properly answer your question and not just hand you a book and tell you to look it up yourself, CO does not have any more non-hub Mexico routes. They all go through IAH, with a few EWR and a handful of CLE routes to vacation spots like CUN.
STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16260 posts, RR: 52 Reply 4, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2713 times:
MSYtristar From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 6242 posts, RR: 51 Reply 5, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2696 times:
CO also flew MSY-CUN and MSY-MEX in happier times.
Rojo From Spain, joined Sep 2000, 2395 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 2635 times:
Quoting STT757 (Reply 4): Not anymore, besides the ExpressJet flights from LAX CO had at one time a pretty extensive network from MEX to non hubs such as..
CO's good old times at MEX. I flew some of these routes and remember that CO was well known in stations like MFE and ELP for its flights to MEX. At one point, CO was flying a B738 between MEX and MFE!!
I also remember MEX-LRD with an E135...
What has been happening to the MEX- US non hub flights for US Airlines? Today, we only see MEX to hub flights for most (if not all) of them. Even DL struggled on the MEX-MCO route!!! Has the market changed a lot in recent times or competition through fares has been so strong to lure people to use hubs?
Mats From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 585 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 2618 times:
Olli From Mexico, joined Mar 2001, 333 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 2588 times:
I got really impressed about CO operation into Mexico, for example, yesterday March 28 there were 87 OW flights to this country from IAH, EWR and CLE. That is a lot.
STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16260 posts, RR: 52 Reply 9, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 2582 times:
Quoting Mats (Reply 7): And Newark-Mexico City used to be with a DC-10.
That was the mid 1990s, it was replaced by the 757-200 and then it went double daily with 737-700s and 737-800s.
Also from the Mid '80s - Mid '90s CO was flying A300s between IAH and MEX.
AznMadSci From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 3541 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2107 times:
Quoting Klwright69 (Reply 10): I am surprised all the non-hub Mexico flying did not turn out to be viable in the end. Why was this so?
Me too.
Was it in anticipation of the proposed codeshare agreement between AM and CO that never materialized?
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Evanbu From United States of America, joined Mar 2009, 376 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1680 times:
I remember I Christmas eve this year CO flew a 762 from IAH-GDL. Yeah, now that's messed up. Also a 752 from IAH-MEX....
STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16260 posts, RR: 52 Reply 14, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1665 times:
As per my December, 1994 OAG Latin American/Caribbean edition:
Mexico City-
Brownsville 1 MD80- Houston 4 MD80, 3 727, 1 757- Mc Allen 1 MD80- Newark 1 757- San Antonio 1 727- San Diego 1 MD80-
Rojo From Spain, joined Sep 2000, 2395 posts, RR: 10 Reply 15, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1643 times:
Quoting Xaapb (Reply 12): When did that happend!! I took many time that flight specially during the holidays and it was always the ERJ.
Saludos!
Long time ago, when the aircraft that used to fly MEX-MFE-MEX was the aircraft flying EWR-MEX-EWR. Therefore, it flew EWR-MEX-MFE-MEX-EWR with a RON in MFE. The flight arrived from EWR around 8:30pm and departed to MFE at 9:30pm. From MFE it was an early morning flight 6:00am arriving in MEX at 7:30 and departing to EWR at 9:00am. For CO it was a better utilization of an aircraft that otherwise will be parked at MEX.
Quoting Evanbu (Reply 13): I remember I Christmas eve this year CO flew a 762 from IAH-GDL. Yeah, now that's messed up. Also a 752 from IAH-MEX....
Almost every Christmas CO flies widebodies to MEX. During Christmas (December 24/25) CO operate a reduced intercontinental schedule and knowing that many Mexicans travel to the US for Christmas vacations, they change aircrafts for some flights. In 2008, CO operated the B767-400 on the IAH-MEX-IAH sector. In 2005, CO operated the B777-200 as shown in the following picture:
2travel2know From Panama, joined Apr 2005, 3580 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1569 times:
Given the huge traffic in/out MEX, wouldn't be adviseble for CO to fly MEX-SAT or MEX-AUS instead of keeping aircraft R.O.N. on MEX and AUS or SAT? If timmed properly, both AUS and SAT could support daily (if not 6 x week) non-stop flights between those airports and MEX. However AUS/SAT-GDL-AUS/SAT I'm not that sure yet.
When it comes to CUN, surely AUS and/or SAT can at least support weekend non-stop flights.
I see how AA behaves in South Florida and I'm trying to compared to the Houston-San Antonio/Austion area (bear in mind Texas distances are not Florida distances); in Florida, MIA is AA hub, but they do offer flights from neighbouring FLL to key markets and I bet, if lots of money was to be made of, AA would fly from PBI too.
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