AeroMexico to Launch Service to Washington Dulles and San Salvador in May

AeroMexico is launching daily service in May between Mexico’s capital Mexico City and the capitals of two other countries in the Americas – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and El Salvador’s capital San Salvador.

The airline’s daily flight from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) will offer connections to more than 40 cities in Mexico and 11 countries in Latin America, including the new Mexico City-San Salvador flight, at AeroMexico’s hub at Terminal 2 at Mexico City’s Aeropuerto Benito Juárez Internacional (MEX).

AeroMexico will begin its Mexico City-San Salvador service on May 7 and its Mexico City-Washington Dulles flight on May 21. It will operate the latter service with Boeing 737NG equipment.

AeroMexico operates an all-Boeing lfeet that includes Boeing 737-700s, 737-800s (One is seen here at New York JFK), Boeing 767-200ERs and Boeing 777s. AeroMexico has also signed a lease deal with ILFC to operate Boeing 787s

The carrier’s Mexico City-Washington Dulles Service is timed to leave MEX daily at 8:35 p.m. and land at IAD at 1:55 a.m. local time. In the other direction, the flight is scheduled to depart IAD at 7:00 a.m. and touch down at MEX at 10:45 a.m. local time.

From May 7, AeroMexico’s daily service between Mexico City and San Salvador will see its daily flight push back from the gate at MEX at 1:20 p.m. and arrive at San Salvador’s El Salvador International Airport (IATA code SAL and commonly known as Comalapa International Airport or Cuscatlán International Airport) at 2:40 p.m. local time.

In the other direction, AeroMexico’s daily flight will leave SAL at 3:40 p.m. and touch down at MEX at 7:08 p.m. local time. The carrier says its new service reinforces its already robust connectivity to Central America.

With these new direct flights to Mexico City, AeroMexico’s North American network will grow to 16 destinations in its and Latin American network to 11 destinations.

In 2011, AeroMexico began an expansion plan began that includes the incorporation of 20 new aircraft and properties over the following 24 months. Grupo Aeromexico’s airlines operate more than 550 daily flights to different cities in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Central and South America, as well as Europe and Asia.

AeroMexico is a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance, which now has 15 member airlines: Aeroflot, Air Europa, Air France, Alitalia, China Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, CSA Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Kenya Airways, Korean Air, TAROM Romanian Air Transport and Vietnam Airlines.

SkyTeam offers its 487 million annual passengers more than 14,000 daily flights to 926 destinations in 173 countries.