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Enilria - Tulum (TQO) Hangs on to Domestic LCCs
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UPDATE
Well, I offered Tulum (TQO) a shred of optimism. Let's rip that away courtesy of Patron MAX, as Volaris is suspending flights as of early January...although they show a March return. They were only about 4/week. Their future merger partner Viva is the largest carrier with Mexican Army owned Mexicana close behind.
ORIGINAL
We have chronicled the continued crash of traffic from Tulum (TQO) airport since it opened South of Cancun (CUN) in Mexico's Yucatan. The airport, newly built, came with a train line, although it is oddly positioned very poorly for passenger use, and the train is so infrequent it is nearly useless for tourists. We have also reported how the local hotel business in Tulum has cratered with occupancy below 10% frequently.
Recently, perhaps the most embarrassing hit took place with AeroMexico vacating the market. It is starting to look at lot like the U.S. - Cuba market, except without sanctions to blame. American, which has been perhaps TQO's biggest U.S. advocate in terms of seats, recently loaded a schedule where they are not even daily during the extreme peak of March Spring Break or even December. It's better than Delta which operates just 5 roundtrips to TQO this month.
I decided to pull the scheduled seats since the airport opened, and for sure U.S. carrier seats are bad. This month they are the lowest since the airport opened to U.S. carrier service in the final few days of March 2024. October will be less than just those few days were. What I think is the ray of hope, the only ray of hope, are the orange bars. At one point the remaining service included flights to Europe and Latin America. That's all gone, but there are a handful of Canadian flights and what remains is almost exclusively Mexican domestic LCCs.
It looks like from a schedule point of view the domestic LCC market is so far fairly steady. We will see if it turns into their savior, or just next up in their demise.
UPDATE
Well, I offered Tulum (TQO) a shred of optimism. Let's rip that away courtesy of Patron MAX, as Volaris is suspending flights as of early January...although they show a March return. They were only about 4/week. Their future merger partner Viva is the largest carrier with Mexican Army owned Mexicana close behind.
ORIGINAL
We have chronicled the continued crash of traffic from Tulum (TQO) airport since it opened South of Cancun (CUN) in Mexico's Yucatan. The airport, newly built, came with a train line, although it is oddly positioned very poorly for passenger use, and the train is so infrequent it is nearly useless for tourists. We have also reported how the local hotel business in Tulum has cratered with occupancy below 10% frequently.
Recently, perhaps the most embarrassing hit took place with AeroMexico vacating the market. It is starting to look at lot like the U.S. - Cuba market, except without sanctions to blame. American, which has been perhaps TQO's biggest U.S. advocate in terms of seats, recently loaded a schedule where they are not even daily during the extreme peak of March Spring Break or even December. It's better than Delta which operates just 5 roundtrips to TQO this month.
I decided to pull the scheduled seats since the airport opened, and for sure U.S. carrier seats are bad. This month they are the lowest since the airport opened to U.S. carrier service in the final few days of March 2024. October will be less than just those few days were. What I think is the ray of hope, the only ray of hope, are the orange bars. At one point the remaining service included flights to Europe and Latin America. That's all gone, but there are a handful of Canadian flights and what remains is almost exclusively Mexican domestic LCCs.
It looks like from a schedule point of view the domestic LCC market is so far fairly steady. We will see if it turns into their savior, or just next up in their demise.
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