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A New Opening in the Skies
posted (August 13, 2018)

Aeromexico, Mexico's global airline, has announced that that it will start making direct flights to Belize.

The BTB says that Aeromexico is the first major commercial airline from out of Mexico to offer such a service to Belize. When the flights start on November 17, 2018, it will be available twice a week on Saturday's and Sundays. That's the tourism high season, and those twice-a-week flights will continue until April 28th of next year. Karen Bevans, the BTB's Director of Tourism, told us via telephone today that since the service is new, Aeromexico and the BTB are doing a joint marketing effort to see if they can generate interest in regular tourist traffic out of Mexico. If it is commercially successful, and the regular tourist traffic can be maintained, then Aeromexico will consider continuing the service into the low season.

For the time being, however, the commitment is that Aeromexico will offer these 2 flights per week during the tourism high season every year.

The BTB says that Mexico is a fast growing tourism market for Belize, and with this new service, the hope is that the ease of travel will attract more Mexican tourists.

Also, since Aeromexico flies to other parts of the world, there is potential that tourists coming from Europe will be able make same-day travel to Belize from destinations such as Paris. That opportunity is also possible for American tourists coming out of the US West Coast. 

In today's press release from BTB, Anko van Der Werff, Aeromexico's Chief Revenue Officer is quoted saying, "we are very happy to celebrate this new route that has also become the airline's 50th international destination"


Gratitude for Garden City

The City of Belmopan turned 48th this weekend. There was a big celebration on Saturday at the Mae Gordon Park. There were a number of booths for established business, car dealerships as well as up and coming businesses. And of course there was loads of entertainment, even a greasy pole competition.


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