Rapid growth among three low-fare airlines helped drive up the number of international passengers transported by Mexican carriers up 42 percent year-over-year during the first quarter of 2012 as those airlines further expanded into U.S. markets and introduced new flights from Mexico to Central America and the Caribbean. These airlines transported 1.3 million international passengers during the first three months of this year compared with 924,916 during the prior year period. Interjet had the most dramatic growth, increasing its share of Mexico’s international market from zero to 5.8 percent year-over-year. Interjet launched its first international flights last year and now operates from Miami, San Antonio, Guatemala City and Havana.
--Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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