AEROCANCUN (AERONAUTICA DE CANCUN, S. A. de C. V.): Ave. Kukulkan 29, Esq Cemzontie, Zona Hotelera, Cancun (Quin-tano Roo), 77500, Mexico; Phone 52 (988) 32475; Fax 52 (988) 32588; Code RE; Year Founded 1989. Aerocancun is formed in October 1989 to offer international charter flights. Orders are placed for 4 new Airbus Industrie A310-324s. A McDonnell Douglas MD-83, its fuselage painted all white and its tail green, is leased and employed in the late spring of 1990 to inaugurate revenue services from Cancun to Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Cincinnati, Bangor, Columbus, and Baltimore.
The fleet is enhanced by the delivery of 2 more chartered MD-83s in 1991, which allow the initiation of new routes to the cities of Sao Paulo, Saint Martin, Basel, Frankfurt, and Cologne. In August, nonstop MD-83 service is opened to Oakland, California, from Cancun, Cozumel, Puerto Valarta, and Cabo San Lucas. When the company applies to the U. S. DOT for additional charter rights, the authorization is opposed by Key
Airlines and American Trans Air, which charge that Aerocancun, in violation of the U. S.-Mexico air agreement, is actually a Spanish concern owned by Madrid-based Oasis International Group, S. A. The first A310-324 arrives in November and is employed to begin charter work to and from European cities.
In 1992, another MD-83 is leased, even as the second A310-324 is delivered in April. The challenge to the company’s charter rights in the U. S. is dismissed by DOT later in the year. Destinations visited in 1993 now include Calgary, Toronto, Basel, Cologne, Frankfurt, Baltimore, Bangor, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Cincinnati, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Washington, Saint Martin, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires. The final 2 A310-324s are delivered in January and May, respectively, allowing return of the MD-83s.
Enplanements for the year total 241,200.
Airline employment is boosted by 66.9% in 1994 to 174 as an A300-622R joins the fleet. New routes are inaugurated to Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires and plans are made to inaugurate services to Spain, Austria, France, and the Dominican Republic.
Customer bookings decline 20.6% to 200,000.
Flights continue in 1995-2000, during which years the workforce at President Javier Maranon’s carrier is increased to 215. Continuing poor traffic returns cancel plans for European services and all but one of the A310-324s plus the MD-83 are returned in favor of a chartered Douglas DC-10-30.
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