Since it took off in July, Click Mexicana has won over passengers with its discount fares, but some travelers said the service has had its rough spots.
“I’ve flown five or six times already and every flight has been late, but I am saving 400 to 500 pesos a flight,” or $40 to $50, Luis Rico Samaniego, a senator from the northern state of Coahuila, said last month at the Mexico City airport as he waited to check in for a flight to Saltillo.
Angel Silva, a passenger interviewed at that time on a Click flight from Tuxtla Gutierrez, called Click’s service “the worst I’ve ever experienced.” Nevertheless, Silva and other Click regulars are sticking with the startup because it offers low fares, some routes other carriers don’t fly and far quicker trips than competing bus companies.
An airline spokeswoman agreed there were kinks in the first month of service, but they’re working on it.
“Our services have improved in terms of punctuality. We are continuing to improve all of our services,” Mexicana spokeswoman Mariana Diaz Mercado said.
Samaniego is still flying the carrier and has noticed the effort.
“They are a little more punctual now than they were in their first month, but they still need to improve many aspects of their service,” he said recently.
The launch of Click is the start of something that could transform the Mexican travel business. It’s not Mexico’s first low-cost airline. But it is the first attempting it on a national basis.
Click Mexicana is likely to be followed by other startup airlines with equally ambitious plans.
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Capilla del Calvario: Guadalajara
It is said that behind the Chapel of the Calvario, where eight hundred twenty-two Were the Christ up to thousands in which It was transferred to the parish because of the tremors; house is one in which a old one lived. At his house a carrier got once to request inn, he Carrier brought with himself the mentioned Image. He proposed to him to the old one that was bought it and was left it so that I know paid it return to its or to gather it if it did not agree to him.
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Mexicana to Introduce New Non-Stop Service Between Mexico City and Baltimore-Washington International
Mexicana de Aviacion, the first airline of Mexico and the leading carrier serving the Mexico-U.S. market,
announced today that it will launch a new service between Mexico and the Washington D.C. area starting December 1st with daily, non-stop service between Mexico City International Airport (MEX) and Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI).
"We are proud to connect Mexico's capital city with the Baltimore- Washington Capital Region," said Emilio Romano, chief executive office of Mexicana. "This is an historic moment for us and we are honored to be a
bridge between our capital
Delta could grow more in Brazil, Mexico
Even as Delta Air Lines Inc. struggles with its own bankruptcy, the airline could capitalize on the financial troubles of two international competitors: Mexicos AeroMéxico and Brazils Varig.
AeroMéxico, Mexicos biggest airline -- which is for sale -- has been reducing flights to some U.S. cities.
And Brazils largest carrier, the bankrupt Varig, made headlines recently by running out of operating cash, canceling hundreds of flights, and threatening to strand about 5,000 customers at the World Cup soccer competition in Germany -- including, some worried, Brazils national soccer team.
Enter Delta (OTC: DALRQ), which
Champoton
Back near the west coast of Campeche State, Route 261 runs 86 km due north from Escarcega through dense forest to the Gulf of Mexico, where it joins the coastal route at Champoton, a relaxed but run-down fishing and shrimping port spread along the banks of Rio Champoton. In pre-Hispanic times it was an important trading link between Guatemala and Central Mexico; Toltec and Maya mingled here, followed by the Spaniards; in fact blood was shed here when Francisco Hernandez de Corboba was fatally wounded in a skirmish with the inhabitants in 1517. On the
North of Pachuca via Atotonilco el Grande, there is a chapel and convent halfway down a beautiful canyon, the impressive Barranca de Metztitlan which has a wealth of different varieties of cacti, including the 'hair)' old man' cactus, and a huge 17th-century monastery. The death of Ome Tochtli (Two Rabbit) at the hands of Tezcatlipoca (Smoking Mirror) occurred at Metztitlan (see box above). Further north on a difficult road is Molango, where there is a restored convent, Nuestra Senora de Loreto. San Miguel Regla, 34 km northeast of Pachuca, is a mid-18th century hacienda built by the Conde de Regla,
You can visit Tonantzintla and Acatepec from Cholula main square with a pesero and you might get to see the (real) lion sitting outside the black and white castle-type building en route. Or you can take a combi from Cholula to Acatepec or to Tonantzintla (marked Chilipo or Chipanco, ask which combi goes to the church you want) for US$0.55 from junction of Avenue 5 and Avenue Miguel Aleman. You can walk the 1 km to the other church, and then take a bus or combi back to Cholula or Puebla. Acatepec from CAPU in Puebla, US$0.45, 30 minutes, bus
Puerto Juarez
About 3 km north of Cancun, Puerto Juarez is the dock for the cheaper ferry services to Isla Mujeres; there is also a bus terminal, but services are more frequent from Colour map 4, grid A3 Cancun. There are, many buses between Cancun and Puerto Juarez, for example No 8 opposite the bus terminal (US$0.70), but when the ferries arrive from Isla Mujeres there are many more taxis than buses (taxi fare should be no more than US$2, beware overcharging).
Cicero lawmaker's hat in Mexico race
If state Sen. Martin Sandoval succeeds in his next election Saturday, he will serve in Mexico City as well as Springfield.
Sandoval is running for a seat on an advisory council created by Mexico President Vicente Fox in 2002 to incorporate Mexicans living in the United States into his government's policymaking.
Sandoval would be the first elected official in the U.S. to serve on the advisory council. That raises the peculiar prospect of the Cicero Democrat offering policy advice in an official capacity to Mexican Cabinet members while creating laws in Illinois.
The possibility has some observers praising
Brazil's low-fare airline Gol on Tuesday said it plans to establish a partnership with Mexico's Inversiones y Tecnicas Aeroportuarias SA, to launch a low-cost airline in that country.
The new airline could begin flying in the first quarter of 2006, Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA said in a statement. The two partners plan to draw up a shareholders agreement in the next few months, and will then seek licenses from Mexican authorities, Gol said.
"Through our Mexican partnership we are planning to introduce a low-cost company in Mexico, to contribute with the development of local industry," Gol's president, Constantino de Oliveira Junior,
MINNEAPOLIS and MEXICO CITY -- NextNet Wireless, the world leader in commercially deployed NLOS fixed, nomadic and mobile plug & play broadband wireless access systems, and MVS Net, Mexico’s leading wireless broadband service provider, announced today that they are delivering Mexico’s first carrier class broadband data + VoIP bundled services, with an average call volume of 1.6 million calls per month, generating over 3.7 million VoIP minutes per month across Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Toluca and Mexicali.
MVS Net employs a powerful carrier-of-carriers business model that supports multiple virtual network operators (MVNO’s) using a common NLOS BWA infrastructure provided by
