Mexico Launches New Airline, Click
 Reuters
| | Click will initially fly nine round-trip routes from Mexico City. |
Mexico City - Mexicana de Aviacion said on Monday it will launch Mexico's first low-cost carrier in July, moving the government closer to privatizing its airline industry.
The new airline, called Click Mexicana, will start ticket sales in May and flights in July as part of a plan to sell Mexico's leading airlines Mexicana and Aeromexico this year.
Mexicana and Aeromexico were brought under government control when they went bankrupt in the mid-1990s.
Holding company Cintra, which is majority-owned by the government, decided earlier this year to sell them separately after an initial proposal to merge them was widely criticized for creating an effective monopoly.
Regional airline Aerocaribe is being converted into the no-frills carrier Click to be packaged with Mexicana for the sale, while Aeromexico is to be sold together with another smaller carrier.
Mexicana said Click will initially fly nine round-trip routes from Mexico City to Saltillo, Nuevo Laredo, San Luis Potosi, Oaxaca, Zihuatanejo, Huatulco, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Villahermosa and Merida. |
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