Aeromexico provides 17 new routes to the U.S. — largely to Delta hubs

Aeromexico introduced a serious U.S. enlargement, revealing plans so as to add a whopping 17 new cross-border routes.

The enlargement will see the Mexican flag service add new flights from seven completely different airports in Mexico to 9 locations within the U.S. Aeromexico didn’t reveal launch dates for the brand new service, saying solely that it’ll “step by step introduce” the brand new routes starting in January 2024.

The entire new flights additionally will carry the “DL” code of joint-venture accomplice Delta Air Traces, which options closely within the enlargement. Fourteen of Aeromexico’s new routes are to Delta’s hub cities — together with 5 new routes to Atlanta and 4 to Detroit.

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From Mexico, Aeromexico is including 4 new routes from each Mexico Metropolis’s foremost airport and from Monterrey within the nation’s northeast.

Additionally included in Aeromexico’s enlargement are two routes from Mexico Metropolis’s new — and distant — secondary airport, Mexico Metropolis Felipe Angeles Worldwide Airport (NLU), which sits about 25 miles from Mexico Metropolis’s central core. For reference, Mexico Metropolis’s foremost Benito Juarez Worldwide Airport (MEX) is about 5 miles from town middle.

Each of Aeromexico’s new routes from NLU will likely be to airports that aren’t hubs for Delta: the Texas cities of Dallas-Fort Price and McAllen. The one different new route within the enlargement that is to not a Delta hub metropolis will likely be Aeromexico’s capital-to-capital route from MEX to Dulles Worldwide Airport (IAD).

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The brand new routes come after the U.S. authorities upgraded Mexico’s air security ranking to Class 1. The U.S. had downgraded Mexico’s air security ranking to Class 2 again in 2021, a transfer that got here with a prohibition on new service by Mexican carriers to U.S. airports. Now that the Class 1 ranking has been restored, Mexican carriers are once more free so as to add new routes to the U.S.

Scroll down for a full checklist of 17 new routes, listed each by U.S. airports and by Mexican airports.