Interjet (AIJ, Toluca) has signed an agreement with domestic competitor Aeromar Airlines (México City International), so that the two carriers jointly market a number of each other's routes as they struggle to recover some of their capacity in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Interjet will help to sell seven Aeromar routes, from México City International to Acapulco, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido, San Luis Potosí, and Veracruz as well as from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta, the company said in a statement on August 5.
For its part, Aeromar Airlines will participate in the sale of seven Interjet routes, from Mexico City to Chetumal, Guadalajara, Merida M. Crescencio Rejon, Monterrey Mariano Escobedo, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana, and Villahermosa.
Business and leisure passengers will be able to connect to destinations offered by either company, expanding the two airlines' networks for their respective potential clients, Interjet explained.
The low-cost carrier declared on its social media profiles: "We've increased our network of destinations to seven more cities through our commercial alliance" with Aeromar.
The companies expect the scope of the agreement to be expanded in the short term to cover the entire networks of both airlines, Interjet said in its statement.
While Interjet has so far resumed operations to provide a total of 238 weekly frequencies on 10 routes, all of which are within Mexico, Aeromar Airlines operates 265 weekly frequencies on 16 routes, the ch-aviation capacities module shows.
On August 4, Interjet promised to increase the number of frequencies by 88% during the month of August as it adds capacity to existing routes and resumes operations to Cancún just as it did earlier in the month to Chetumal and Villahermosa.
