Mexico’s Once-Soaring Interjet Is Now Racking Up Debt
Andrea Navarro, Bloomberg
Interjet needs all the cash it's borrowing. But in the years to come, the airline will likely regret having piled on so much debt.
2 weeks ago
Andrea Navarro, Bloomberg
Interjet needs all the cash it's borrowing. But in the years to come, the airline will likely regret having piled on so much debt.
2 weeks ago
Daniela Guzman and Andrea Navarro, Bloomberg
The cost of abandoning Mexico City's new airport could be as high as $10.5 billion, but Mexico's president-elect maintained that the project gave him serious misgivings.
3 weeks ago
Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift
The relationship between American tourists and Mexico is nearly a century old and has weathered ups and downs. Today's drug-related violence, mounting border tension, and political rhetoric won't stop these trips, but are clearly disrupting them.
1 month ago
Nikki Ekstein, Bloomberg
Truth be told, Mexico tourism officials have been promoting Riviera Nayarit as the country's next big tourism destination for at least the past decade. But it looks like, finally, that hard work is beginning to pay off.
2 months ago
Daniela Guzman and Andrea Navarro, Bloomberg
The decision to cancel or continue building Mexico City's new airport might be put to a national referendum in October, said President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. It's often problematic to put an infrastructure project up for a popular vote, but this may be a special case.
3 months ago
Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
On paper, it sounds like a great idea for Mexico, down to reducing overtourism in some of the Yucatan's more popular spots by allowing access to more remote regions. But like any project of this scale, and with this price tag, politics and certain opposition loom.
3 months ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
At least Mexico's president-elect, López Obrador, has tapped someone intimately familiar with the travel industry and how it operates locally and internationally. It's more than the United States can say it's done for travel in the past year and a half.
4 months ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
Mexico's tourism industry has been lucky in the past year as the violence mostly hasn't targeted tourist destinations like Mexico City. But if history is any guide, tourism is often the focus for anyone wanting to cause harm and chaos. We hope we're wrong about this one.
6 months ago
Michael Weissenstein and Bert Wilkinson, Associated Press
Mexican authorities will investigate the charter company involved in the Cuban plane crash. Lets hope authorities in Mexico and Cuba will find out what happened.
6 months ago
Mary Schlangenstein, Bloomberg
In the airline industry, flights come and go all the time. Clearly, United is calculating it can make more money sending its aircraft to places other than Mexico. Domestic demand remains robust, almost every airline has said on recent earnings calls.
6 months ago
Eduardo Thomson, Bloomberg
Copa Airlines CEO Pedro Heilbron has been in the job for 30 years, and has been adept at managing the carrier through sometimes-turbulent times. For that reason alone, Copa should be OK. But you never know.
9 months ago
Luke Bujarski , Skift
Latin America’s tourist destinations have excelled at nation branding by creating vibrant and colorful content to entice travelers. In 2018, the region’s tourism offices will get more savvy with their digital marketing efforts as the visitor economy grows in importance.
9 months ago