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List of Cheap Mexico Airlines

By Kathleen Crislip, About.com

Photo Las Gatas Beach in Zihuatanejo, Mexico

Las Gatas Beach, Zihuatanejo, Mexico

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Cheap Mexico airlines hopped on the budget airline flight path in 2005, with Avolar, Azteca, Click, Interjet, vivaAerobus, or viva Aerobus, and Volaris on board the cheap Mexico airfare wagon by 2006. More cheap Mexico airlines will probably be on the way as Mexico privatizes major airline AeroMexico. The cheap Mexico airlines below are like Southwest in the US and budget airline easyJet in Europe -- cheap airfares to sometimes (to Norte Americanos) obscure or remote airports, though some, like RyanAir's vivaAerobus, will be serving a few US cities with cheap Mexico airfares, too.

Check out the list of current cheap Mexico airlines below and bear in mind that you may have to use Mexico buses to get around to the airports, or that Mexico buses may (likely) provide cheaper long haul Mexico travel than flying within Mexico. Most sites are in Spanish and the deals are very hard to find -- persist and it may be worth it. Different airlines serve different hubs, meaning you may have to search a couple of airlines to put together the ultimate route you want. And lastly, you may want to read about a search for budget Mexico airfare we undertook in summer 2006.

List of Cheap Mexico Airlines

  • Aviacsa - Aviacsa's hub is Mexico City and it's got one of the larger destination maps among the budget Mexico airlines. Aviacsa's site has an English section. Aviacsa phone number: 1-800-758-2188 or 54 82 82 80 in Mexico.

  • Avolar - Avolar's Tijuana hub serves La Paz on southern Baja's Sea of Cortez coast and a pretty wide range of cities in central and western Mexico (Avolar's routes currently exclude the Yucatan).

  • Azteca - Aazteca has fairly cheap Mexico airfares within Mexico, especially central-south cities like Guadalajara, Morelia, Uruapan, and Puebla, as well as Mexico flights from US cities like New York -- flies from Mexicali, too. Azteca is the other (Aviasca, too) cheap Mexico airline serving Puerto Vallarta as of this writing (August '06). Azteca phone number: 1-888-754-0066.

  • Click - Click Mexicana serves many very cool and somewhat less touristy areas, like beach resort Huatulco (south of Oaxaca city) and colonial Merida (play a few days, then drive to Cancun and Tulum), with often very cheap Mexico airfare specials.

  • Interjet - Interjet offers Veracruz, Tampico and Monterrey routes among its cheap Mexico airfares

  • vivaAerobus or Viva Aerobus - RyanAir's Mexico airline started offering cheap Mexico airfare in September, 2006 -- RyanAir is the cheap European airline champ based in Ireland and will be teaming with Mexico's IAMSA bus company for the Ryanair Mexico airline.

  • Volaris - Volaris airline is one of the cheap Mexico airlines with a Bajio Leon (San Miguel de Allende) routes, as well as a Tijuana-Cancun route. Volaris telephone number: 1-800-7VOLARIS.

Read about a search for budget Mexico airfare we undertook in summer 2006.

Mexico Travel Planning

You can always cobble together a cheap Mexico airfare using a US airline sale or a student airfare to a US-Mexico border city like San Diego (take the bus to Tijuana) or Juarez, then grab a cheap Mexico airfare from one of the cheap Mexico airlines. Enjoy Mexico!

Attitude Travel will also keep you up to date on new cheap airline routes being served up in Mexico.

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