Its owner, Miguel Torruco Marqués, announced that between January and February 2022, seven million 364,000 passengers were carried on domestic flights, 49.5 percent more than reported in 2021, with only about 233,000 reaching the seven million 597 mobilized in 2019 thousand passengers.
The official reported that the Mexican airlines that showed the most activity on domestic flights in January and February 2022 were Volaris and Viva Aerobus, which carried 5,519,000 passengers and exceeded 2021 arrivals by 70.9 percent and 46.8 percent , which was recorded in 2019. For their part, the Federal Agency for Civil Aviation (AFAC) and the Secretariat for Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), Volaris, Viva Aerobus, Aeroméxico and Aeromar were the main airlines with the most passengers on domestic flights in January and February, which accounted for 98.6 percent of the domestic market.
The recovery can also be seen on international flights. The agency said that in the first two months of 2022, seven million 276,000 passengers were carried on international flights, up 125.6 percent from 2021, and just 13.2 short of those in pre-Covid 2019 -19 passengers carried was eight million 387 thousand.
Torruco Marqués highlighted that the main Mexican airlines that carried passengers on international flights in these two months were Aeroméxico and Volaris with a million 382,000 passengers. That number is 10.2 percent higher than 2021 and would be 11.6 percent away from reaching the number of people in 2019, which was one million 564,000.
The Minister of Tourism commented that the North American market concentrates 83.8 percent of the share of international passengers carried. He added that the European market carried 616,000 379 tickets, 8.5 of the total, an increase of 362.9 percent.
Central and South America contributed 580,000 946, up 176.6 percent, and the Asian market represented the least physically, with 25,000 seats, but grew the most in percentage terms, up 592.7 points.
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