AIRLINES FLYING WITHIN MEXICO
[This list was exerpted from an article on the website "SF Gate", in mid-May of 2008. It may be incomplete, and by the time you read this many things may have changed. However, it's a pretty good start for those of you who are, as I often am, frustrated with the incomplete listings on the major travel search engines.]
Aero California (21 destinations)
- Founded: 1960 (as charter company)
- Hub: Mexico City International Airport
- Popular destinations: Acapulco, Cancún, Guadalajara, Mérida, Mexico City, Morélia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta ("coming soon"), Tijuana
- Other destinations worth a look: Chetumal, Chihuahua, Hermosillo, León/Bajío
- U.S. destinations: None
Aladia (6 destinations)
- Founded: 2006
- Hub: Monterrey (General Mariano Escobedo International Airport)
- Popular destinations: Cancún, Guadalajara, Los Cabos, Oaxaca, Puebla
- Other destinations worth a look: None
- U.S. destinations: None
Alma de Mexico (30 destinations)
- Founded: 2006 (by a former director of Aeromexico)
- Hub: Guadalajara (Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport)
- Popular destinations: Cancún, Chihuahua, Guadalajara, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Los Cabos, Mazatlán, Mérida, Oaxaca, Puebla, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, Tijuana
- Other destinations worth a look: Aguascalientes, Chetumal, Ciudad del Carmen (Campeche), Ciudad Obregón (Sonora), La Paz, Los Mochis, Torreón
- U.S. destinations: None
Aviacsa (20 destinations)
- Founded: 1990 (by State of Chiapas)
- Hubs: Mexico City International Airport; Monterrey (Gen. Mariano Escobedo International Airport)
- Popular destinations: Acapulco, Cancún, Guadalajara, Mérida, Mexico City, Morélia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana
- Other destinations worth a look: Chetumal, Hermosillo, León/Bajío
- U.S. destinations: Las Vegas (to Monterrey, Mexico City)
Avolar (19 destinations)
- Founded: 2005
- Hub: Tijuana (Gen. Abelardo L. Rodriguez International Airport)
- Popular destinations: Acapulco, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Morélia, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tijuana, Zacatecas
- Other destinations worth a look: Aguascalientes, Colima, Durango, Hermosillo, León/Bajío, Tepic, Uruapán
- U.S. destinations: None
Click Mexicana (25 destinations)
- Founded: 2005 (subsidiary of Mexicana, incorporating Aerocaribe Airlines)
- Hub: Mexico City International Airport
- Popular destinations: Cozumel, Guadalajara, Ixtapa-Zijuatanejo, Manzanillo, Mérida, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta
- Other destinations worth a look: Aguascalientes, Chetumal, Ciudad del Carmen, Colima, Huatulco, León/Bajío, Puerto Escondido, San Luis Potosí, Torreon
- U.S. destinations: None
Interjet (13 destinations)
- Founded: 2005
- Hub: Toluca (Lic. Adolfo López Mateos International Airport)
- Popular destinations: Acapulco, Cancún, Guadalajara, Ixtapa-Zijuatanejo, Los Cabos, Mérida, Puerto Vallarta
- Other destinations worth a look: Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen
- U.S. destinations: None
Viva Aerobus (23 destinations)
- Founded: 2006 (co-owned by family that founded Ryanair)
- Hub: Monterrey (General Mariano Escobedo International Airport)
- Popular destinations: Acapulco, Cancún, Cozumel, Cuernavaca, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Los Cabos, Mazatlán, Mérida, Morélia, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, Tijuana
- Other destinations worth a look: Chihuahua, Hermosillo, Huatulco, La Paz, León/Bajío
- U.S. destinations: Austin, Texas (to Cancún, Monterrey)
Volaris (21 destinations)
- Founded: 2005 (co-owned by El Salvador national airline Grupo TACA)
- Hub: Toluca (Lic. Adolfo López Mateos International Airport)
- Popular destinations: Acapulco, Cancún, Guadalajara, Los Cabos, Mazatlán, Mérida, Morélia, Oaxaca, Puebla, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana
- Other destinations worth a look: Aguascalientes, Campeche (summer 2008), Hermosillo, León/Bajío
- U.S. destinations: Approved to fly to Los Angeles; airport not yet assigned.