Viva launches new flights connecting US cities to AIFA airport

Low-cost hose Viva — formerly known arsenic Viva Aerobús — announced 2 caller planetary routes from Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AU) and New York (JFK), starting this winter.

The way to Austin volition statesman connected Nov. 20, and volition run 3 times a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

The caller flights volition link AIFA airdrome successful México authorities to New York City and Austin, Texas. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro)

Meanwhile, work to JFK volition beryllium seasonal and strategic. It volition tally from Dec. 12 done Jan. 11, with 3 play flights connected Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The way volition subsequently instrumentality successful June 2026, coinciding with the commencement of the FIFA World Cup. Both Mexico City and New York volition beryllium big cities for the competition.

“At Viva, we are preparing to link Mexicans with assorted World Cup big cities and to invited the question of planetary tourists who volition surely sojourn our state during this large event,” Viva CEO Juan Carlos Zuazua said.

He added that the bearer would adjacent 2025 with 42 routes to and from AIFA, representing a 44% summation compared to past year.

The caller routes join 7 antithetic routes the bearer announced successful April betwixt the AIFA and the U.S., arsenic portion of a strategy to fortify planetary connectivity to AIFA. The destinations of those routes see Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Miami and Orlando.

“We proceed to boost this airport’s planetary connectivity, tourism, and opportunities for thousands of Mexicans with these caller routes,” the General Manager of AIFA Isidoro Pastor Román said. “Thanks to the efforts of airlines similar Viva, our staff, our location, and our first-class infrastructure, we are consolidating AIFA arsenic the champion enactment for flying successful the Metropolitan Area of ​​the Valley of Mexico,” helium said.

According to Pastor, AIFA is projected to transport 7.3 cardinal passengers successful 2025, surpassing the erstwhile grounds of 6.3 cardinal acceptable past year. However, it is inactive operating beneath its afloat capacity.

When the airdrome opened, officials expected to service 20 cardinal passengers per year. Yet successful the much than 3 years from its opening successful March 2022 to July 2025, the airdrome has served a full of conscionable 13.5 cardinal passengers.

Though the fig of passengers remains debased compared to the archetypal estimates, request continues to summation each year.

With reports from A21, Puente Libre and Polls.mx