Small Texas airport desperate to rekindle AeroMexico relationship
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This dynamic of small airports trying to retain a reluctant airline, which isn't getting enough business, is being played out across the country. The withdrawal of an airline can be a death knell for a community and its travelers.
Officials in Brownsville, Texas, hope they can convince AeroMexico to reconsider pulling out of the Rio Grande Valley.
Larry Brown, director of aviation at Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport, said the airport has a solid economic argument for convincing AeroMexico to resume service to the city.
The airline, meanwhile, has so far collected none of the ticket subsidies it has coming to it through the terms of an agreement with the Brownsville Economic Development Council -- though it still could.
Mexico's largest air carrier initiated service two days a week between Brownsville and Monterrey, Mexico, in July 2011 for a three-month trial period. With the subsequent offer of an incentives package from BEDC, funded through the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation, AeroMexico announced it would extend the trial period by a year, Brown said. AeroMexico a
