Originally Posted by
saltytheseagull
The problem is it that burns a whole day and the banks don't work for the latest DFW flight. The afternoon ex-MIA banks really baffle me for my needs. IMO AA seems to be retreating ex-MEX as well (not that they ever had a dominant position). LAX gets axed after getting upgauged to a 738.
Yep this is the issue; even taking a brutal 5am flight ex-MEX via DFW or MIA, the earliest you’ll get into NYC is 4:30pm, so for me if I have to be in the office, I’ll take the horrible red eye, but if not, I’ll stick to the 1 stop. I do hope this route does survive…like others have said it’s generally way cheaper than the other nonstop options (not including VB), and it was only started Nov ‘22.
Originally Posted by
Antarius
They were supposed to replace MEX with the new state of the art Texcoco airport. Unfortunately, the president decided to cancel it and instead built a Tokyo Narita/Washington Dulles/Montreal Mirabel equivalent unwanted airport, leaving old, dumpy MEX as the main airport.
All around awful.
Funny enough, the Texcoco airport isn’t exactly close either. And the Felipe Angeles airport is comically far and a perfect example of a white elephant project. It’s no wonder barely anyone wants to fly there (sans the army controled Mexicana 2.0, which opens up another whole can of worms) and with the the slot controls at MEX, I don’t see much improvement anytime soon in one’s experience flying into and out of North Americas biggest city.