luv2cattlecall From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1648 posts, RR: 2 Posted (2 years 6 months 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 6186 times:
I was trying to help a friend book a ticket for Spring Break, and noticed that, after May 4th, there were no flights departing to or returning from Cancun. Out of curiosity, I looked at what flights to Los Cabos were looking like, and it appears that after May 2nd, there are no flights to there either.
Is there any news regarding this oddity?
Also, how are they flying to Cancun without long range EOW or ETOPS..coast hugging?
Thanks
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enilria From Canada, joined Feb 2008, 6134 posts, RR: 13 Reply 4, posted (2 years 6 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 5877 times:
Quoting rgreenftm (Reply 1): Depending where you are booking from, it may not be available. Looking at the route map, I see you can only book To/FROM Cancun to SFO and LAX.
I just looked at the site and its true. You can book LAX-SFO throughout May, but CUN seems to stop at the beginning of the month. Didn't check SJD, but it's probably the same. It is possible they intend the routes to be seasonal. I think they are allowed to do that for short periods without losing the authority, but somebody else may know better what risk they are taking. I even looked on Saturday and found nothing. If they were flying it at all they would be selling Saturday.
So basically they have offset scheduled expirations if it isn't simply deleted. That would be an oversight if that is even what is really up. Mexico has a longer booking window than domestic, so there is no reason to give it an earlier expiration other than a mistake.
AirNZ From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (2 years 6 months 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 5723 times:
Quoting rgreenftm (Reply 1): Looking at the route map, I see you can only book To/FROM Cancun to SFO and LAX.
But a route map would have absolutely no relevance on booking. Only being able to fly from certain points (i.e. SFO and LAX) is a completely different thing from booking the flight. So yes, probably seasonal.
laca773 From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3749 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (2 years 6 months 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 5458 times:
SFO/LAX-CUN being seasonal makes good sense. These markets are not easy to make money on. By flying it during the most desirable periods to travel to CUN, is a smart move vs flying planes empty or filled with super lower fares when people don't want to travel when it's 100 degrees, and 95% humidity.
as739x From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 5820 posts, RR: 23 Reply 8, posted (2 years 6 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 4668 times:
As of this time, the VX Mexico flights are loaded seasonal. They appear not operate during the low summer season. But when announced it was said to be daily.
Alaska does the same thing as they drop frequency's in the summer. Many of their plane deploy to the state of Alaska during the summer for them obviously. But Mexico during the summer has always been less them winter.
[Edited 2010-11-23 18:30:18]
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