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1982
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MEXICANA FACTS Passengers carried in 1981: 8-15 million (1 95 million international, 6-20 million domestic) 1981 net profit: 834 million pesos* 1981 operating revenues: 14,660 million pesos 1981 operating profit: 1,360 million pesos Flights flown in 1981: 57,512 Hours flown in 1981:128,540 1982Fleet: 3 Boeing 727-100s 39 Boeing 727-200S 5DC-10-15S On Order: 7 Boeing 727-200S Workforce: 12,150 * Peso values have not been converted here to UK Sterling or US Dollars because of constant fluctuations in peso exchange rates under the influence of the recent Mexican devaluation. three years, says marketing manager Lenic Rodriguez. The airline will first have to be satisfied that pricing sanity has returned on the North Atlantic. The new US-ECAC agreement, if it sticks, could provide the sort of pricing condi tions Mexicana wants. The carrier might buy 747s—a specially engined version perhaps to be known as the 747MEX—if it flies to Europe. The airline's main priority is to open up medium-range domestic routes, says Rodriguez. There are about 10-15 new airports under construction in Mexico which Mexicana wants to serve. These are sited at new oil and industrial centres that the Government is develop ing. One such is Puebla, a city of two million currently without an airport. Rodriguez also names Ruapan (to which Mexicana started flying recently), Lazaro Cardinas and Topolovampo (the last two being major new industrial port developments). Mexicana has begun flying to Carmen and Campeche, major new oil towns, in the last two years, and these services have proved "instant successes". The airline now wants to add oil centres Minatitlan and Villahermosa to its network. Mexicana is also interested in open ing new international gateway routes from Mexico Gty to Tampa, Philadel- Mexicana has two Boeing 727-200 simulators—one built by Singer-Link, and the other by CAE. Mexicana and Aeromexico have jointly ordered a DC-10-15 simulator from CAE, to be installed at Mexicana's training base in 1983 phia, Atlanta, and Baltimore/Washing- ton. It also wants to serve Cancun from Dallas and Philadelphia, and Monterrey from Chicago, with low-fare night flights. But the devaluation of the peso must stabilise before any decision is made, says the airline. The carrier is now waiting for approval from the Canadian authorities to open up routes from the Mexican capital to Toronto, Montreal, and Van couver through Chicago. It already has the go-ahead from the Mexican and US Governments. These services would become non-stop if traffic justified it. Ex pansion to Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil is also being considered, and services to Panama may be introduced in about 18 months. Despite its caution, Mexicana wants to expand. It is confident that (he traffic will be there, as no European or US international carrier can be confid ent. Perhaps the last word lies with Manuel Sosa de la Vega, who says "Mexicana will be profitable for a long time. Not necessarily more profitable, but profitable." At the most, there can be only two or three other major inter national carriers who can say that with any certainty. Mexioana has joined bhe elite. D Mexicana now operates the largest fleet of Boeing 727s in the world outside the USA, with 42 in operation and seven more cm order. The t\)pe has provided the backbone of the airline's recent spectacular financial success FLIGHT International, 19 June 1982
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