Líneas Aéreas Azteca

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Líneas Aéreas Azteca

IATA ZE	ICAO LCD	Callsign Líneas Aéreas Azteca
Founded		2001
Hubs		Mexico City International Airport Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Int'l Airport
Focus cities		Gen. Mariano Escobedo Int'l Airport Gen. Abelardo L. Rodríguez Int'l Airport
Fleet size		9
Destinations		19
Parent company		Líneas Aéreas Azteca S.A. de C.V.
Headquarters		Guadalajara, Mexico
Key people		Eduardo L. McGregor (CEO)
Website: http://www.aazteca.com.mx

ZE redirects here. For other uses, see Ze.

Líneas Aéreas Azteca is a privately owned airline based in Mexico City, Mexico. It operates domestic scheduled services. Its main base is Mexico City International Airport, with a hub at General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport, Tijuana ^[1].

1 History
2 Destinations
- 2.1 Mexico
- 2.2 United States
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The airline was established on 9 May 2000 and started operations on 1 June 2001 operating domestic services with Boeing 737 aircraft. It started up after TAESA closed down and some of the staff and assets were taken over ^[1].

The airline is a member, under the name Azteca Airlines, of the Airlines Reporting Corporation. Líneas Aéreas Azteca has actively sought to expand international routes into the United States. In 2003, Azteca contributed a small amount to traffic through Ontario International Airport, California, constituting ~0.5% of passenger traffic in each of January and October.^{[citation needed]}

Acapulco Travel & Tours(Orange County, Acatravel.com) reports that as of January 20th, 2006, Azteca Airlines S.A. de C.V. is now a participating e-ticket carrier. This information may lead to a new layout of www.aazteca.com.mx, which is in construction and which currently does not offer online ticket issuance.

Following weeks of speculation about the airlines' financial situation, on 26 March 2007, the Secretariat of Communications & Transport of Mexico (SCT) issued a 90-day operations-desist claim that will immediately halt the operations of the airline in order for it to respond to its financial credit, personnel training and aircraft maintenance issues..^[2]