Six years after leaving the route, Aeromexico has resumed service between Washington Dulles International Airport and Mexico City.
The resumption began July 2, with the carrier using two-class, 166-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.
Latin America is proving to be a major growth destination for Dulles. According to data published in May, the airport is now at 179-percent of pre-pandemic levels of flights to that region, compared to a national figure of 124 percent.
“International air service like this new flight from Aeromexico is critical,” said Paul Bobson, vice president of airline-business development at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. He pegged the annual economic impact of the new daily service at $24 million.
Aeromexico in 2018 eliminated service to five U.S. airports, including Dulles, as a cost-cutting measure. In addition to adding back service to Dulles, new routes opened May 2 from Mexico City to Salt Lake City, Raleigh and Tampa.
According to published schedules, Aeromexico Flight 455 leaves Mexico City daily at 8:25 a.m., arriving at Dulles at 3:06 p.m. Return Flight 456 departs Dulles at 5 p.m., arriving in Mexico City at 7:45 p.m. (All times are local to destination.) Total travel time is slightly less than five hours.
The flights codeshare with Delta Air Lines, which has financial and operational partnerships with Aeromexico, and compete with service from Dulles’s dominant carrier, United Airlines, which also provides once-per-day nonstop service between the two capitals.
