It started out with a single airplane and two employees back in 1979 - but Tropic Air has grown to become the largest airline company in Belize.
With over 180 daily flights to 13 destinations in Belize, Honduras and Guatemala, the air company has now added another destination to the list. But it's not just any other connection; Tropic says it can take you to Cancun, Mexico.
The airline owner says it's a strategic addition as it willlessen travel time for passengers connecting with European, Asian and Caribbean flights who previously had to drive to and from Cancun or take a bus. John Greif told us more:
John Greif - President, Tropic Air
"We've now inaugurated our flights to Cancun Mexico, which now gives us flights with all of our neighbors. We have daily service to Honduras and San Pedro Sula, to Flores in Guatemala and Guatemala City and now to Mexico. So much like the Government of Belize is inaugurating the land bridge soon; we're inaugurating an air bridge to Mexico today. Tropic at the end of the day really is a Tourist airline, so we're hoping that tourist component will be large but there's a big business component too. For instance; our flights to Guatemala are 20 - 30% business, so we're - you just never know, you just cast a big net and see what we catch. We start out very small; our philosophy is if you're going to fail, fail small so we're sending a 12 seat airplane and we're going daily except Saturdays, so we have a lot of - the costumer has a lot of flexibility. If we see that on Wednesday for instance we need more service, we'll send a second plane, if we see that at the end of the year that the route is demanding a bigger air plane, we'll put on a bigger airplane."
Steven Schulte - CEO, Tropic Air
"Well the schedule is to Cancun, which we inaugurated this morning, is around 11:30 am arriving in Cancun at 1:15, departing at 2:15 and arriving here at 4 o'clock. We actually think we'll tighten that schedule up, but we've left a lot of room in there. Cancun is a very busy airport, so we're going to see how it works out, and then we'll tighten the schedule up a little bit. It won't be quite that long of flying and maybe we'll have the airplane back here earlier. We'd like to get it back earlier because we want to take people on to Flores and Guatemala and to San Pedro Sula and Honduras."
Flights to Cancun will be daily except for Saturday's and the price is 399 U.S round trip. The airline also flies to San Pedro Sula, Honduras and Flores, Guatemala.
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