The airline also announced the opening of a service called ‘Viva Bus’, which will depart from the Central Bus Terminal of the North, through which passengers will be able to get to the air terminal for 75 pesos.
“As planes arrive, we are going to grow, and this is the most important part of the country: there are more than 30 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico,” he explained.
Volaris begins operations with a flight to Cancun
The airline directed by Enrique Beltranena was the first to confirm its operation at the Felipe Ángeles last October. Since the opening of the airport, Volaris It will operate routes to Cancun and Tijuana, two of the markets that have recovered passengers the fastest since the pandemic broke out, and where the company sees a considerable market.
“The area around the airport that could be of interest in these flights is more or less a population of 4.8 million passengers, equivalent to the population of León, or similar Volaris routes in Aguascalientes or Querétaro,” Beltranena told Expansion at that time.
The first Volaris flight took off at 12:00 p.m. bound for Cancun and landed at the destination at 3:13 p.m., with a total duration of 2 hours 13 minutes. The second flight left at 12:27 p.m. bound for Tijuana, a destination that arrived at 3:40 p.m., with a total duration of 2 hours 13 minutes. They were both direct.
The passengers of the first Volaris flight to Cancun, among whom were several journalists, applauded and chanted phrases such as “Yes, we could,” “You are not alone” and “It is an honor to be with Obrador.” The airline gave away t-shirts to passengers and gave away five round-trip flight certificates to any destination.
With information from David Santiago