AeroMexico Back In Toronto

AeroMexico will soon link Toronto and Mexico City, part of a strategy that it expects will have it serving all three of this country’s largest cities before the end of 2015, reports Ian Stalker in this week’s digital edition of Travel Courier.

The airline will begin non-stop Toronto-Mexico City service on May 4 using B737s that can carry 124 passengers, 12 of them in business class.

AeroMexico’s flights will leave the Ontario capital at 8:30 a.m., arriving in Mexico City at 12:35 p.m. Return flights will leave Mexico City at 1 a.m., arriving in Toronto at 6:46 a.m.

The airline already has daily Montreal service that AeroMexico’s Claudia Gonzalez told a March 19 Toronto gathering has been “very successful,” and she added that the Toronto route is “long overdue.”

“Obviously, Canada has become a very important market for AeroMexico,” she said.

AeroMexico – in business over 80 years – briefly served Toronto in 2008, but withdrew from the route, citing changes in the market that led it to refocus on other cities.

Canadian service sees the SkyTeam member competing against Air Canada.

AeroMexico is Mexico’s largest carrier, and offers what Gonzalez called “great connectivity” from Mexico City to points elsewhere in the country, including major tourism centres.

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