MX busy falling apart
Mexicana, oneworld’s newest member and the 4th oldest commercial airline in the world has been operating on borrowed time it seems – filing for bankruptcy protection in both the US and Mexico to stop moar planes being seized (depending on which report you read, two or three were temporarily held in Canada like this one – and another in Chicago besides); dropping long haul routes and stopping forward ticket sales do not for a healthy airline make.
It seems that the other Grupo Mexicana airlines MexicanaClick and MexicanaLink (single class domestic/short haul ops) are both still doing just fine – their lower cost base means that they’re both still profitable.
It’s never good to see an airline implode, especially not one that I really enjoyed flying with — smiling staff, clean planes and reasonable food/bev that you didn’t need to find a credit card for certainly made for some great flights — I sure hope they manage to get out of the mess they’re in. Doubt it, but it’s not played out yet.