AMLO recently announced that construction of the highway that will provide a shortcut between Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara will be completed by March 2024. Once completed, this highway will shorten travel time to 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Although more than 3 million passengers passed through the Puerto Vallarta International Airport during the first five months of the year, exceeding the total that it accumulated in the same period of 2022 by almost 20%, in the month of May there was a percentage growth of barely 1 percent.
A new Mexican airline called Señor Air, whose base will be in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, will soon start flying to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, Guadalajara and other destinations. According to the airline, it will operate with Brazilian-made Embraer 135 aircraft, small executive-style jets that have a capacity for 37 passengers.
Terminal 2 of the Puerto Vallarta International Airport, one of the most efficient air terminals in terms of environmental sustainability, is expected to be ready to serve 5 million passengers by the end of 2024. The innovative terminal will boast a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) project certification.
With the addition of two new routes and increased frequencies on 21 existing routes, American Airlines increases its nonstop flights between the U.S. and Mexico, the Caribbean, and Latin America this winter. This is good news for Texans traveling to Puerto Vallarta, as service from the DFW International airport will increase to 4 daily flights.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mark Wahlberg, Jaime Camil and Abraham Ancer are featured in a star-studded promotional campaign for the upcoming amusement park at Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta, which is set to begin offering guided 'preview' tours of some of the theme park facilities and attractions on August 1, 2023.
The problem of garbage collection is an issue that worries citizens in cities all over the world, and Puerto Vallarta is no exception. In recent years, the generation of garbage in this city has increased significantly, which has led to the need to increase the number of collection trucks and provide citizens with quality trash removal service.
The Marina Vallarta Residents Association and the Municipality's Animal Welfare Branch are working on a plan to promote responsible pet ownership in that area of the municipality, which they hope will be a model to be followed by other communities, according to the director of the Association, Antonio García López.
For the municipal government of Mayor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez, improving the quality of life for the most vulnerable families in Puerto Vallarta is a priority. This is why on Tuesday he launched the 'Transforming Families' program, which consists of delivering baskets of basic foods [despensas] that provide them with better nutrition.
Recently, the news that Tesla plans to build an automotive manufacturing plant in Monterrey, Nuevo León caused enormous furor. Now it has caused another stir, but this time in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, where the auto company has installed a series of electric vehicle charging points in the city.
