Aeromexico Celebrates 10 years Connecting YYZ and YVR to CDMX ; 15 from YUL

There are a lot of direct flights to Mexico from Canada’s three major airports. Sunwing, Air Transat, WestJet, and Air Canada all fly to the places, mostly on the coasts, that have been the most traditionally popular destinations for sun-seeking Canadians.

Aeromexico is different.

Their daily flights to Mexico City, mostly on their new fleet of 737 Maxes, connect to 45 destinations in Mexico. Up until last year it was twice-daily, but the Canadian government changed its visa policy for Mexicans, making it more complicated and less convenient to come here.

So, you could go to Cancun or Puerto Vallarta with the airline, but the real reason to take Mexico’s flag carrier is to investigate the various candidates for the Next Big Thing — places like Guadalajara, Merida, Monterrey, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Miguel de Allende, and Zacatecas.

Related: Oaxaca City, Mexico: UNESCO City Brimming With Colour and Culture

And now that many of us are skipping over our neighbours to the immediate south, it’s the perfect time to discover the rest of our new best southern friend.

(Photo Credit: Bert Archer)

Milestone Anniversary Celebration

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Aeromexico operating out of Toronto Pearson (YYZ) and Vancouver International (YVR), and its 15th out of Montreal-Trudeau (YUL), which it is celebrating in Montreal this week.

Pepe Zapata, Aeromexico’s VP of North American and Latin American sales, was in Montreal visiting from his home in Dallas. Zapata celebrated the milestone at Alma, (voted the best Mexican restaurant outside of Mexico,) with some key Quebec accounts, including SkyLink Voyages and Alio Tours, among others.

According to Zapata, about 455,000 people flew with Aeromexico from Canada to CDMX last year, 50 percent of whom stayed in the city; one of the world’s greatest and most sophisticated, but still largely underappreciated by Canadians as a tourist destination.

Next year will be a bit of an anomaly for the company, because of the World Cup. Zapata says they’ll be deciding on route changes and frequency surrounding the event once the lineup is announced in December. But once that’s done, Zapata says the goal is to overcome the challenges posed by the visa restrictions, which he doesn’t see going away any time soon, and get back to twice daily flights.

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