Originally Posted by FlyerJ

Interesting…

Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, flew from MEX to Calgary today to join the G7 meeting.

As became the standard for Mexico a few years ago under the previous populist president, she flew commercial. In economy class. She was the only leader who didn’t fly a big ol’ government plane to YYC.

Did she fly the WS Mexico City non-stop? Nope.

She connected at YVR. Instead of WS, she flew MEX-YVR, and then YVR-MEX.

(The press reports don’t specify which airline(s) she flew. It could have been a need to fly at least part way in AM, for optics. Or it could have been a schedule issue. Either way, it wasn’t the one and only non-stop option.)