Volaris

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Volaris

IATA Y4	ICAO VOI	Callsign Volaris
Founded		2005
Hubs		Lic. Adolfo López Mateos Int'l Airport
Focus cities		Gen. Abelardo L. Rodríguez Int'l Airport Cancún Int'l Airport Gen. Mariano Escobedo Int'l Airport
Frequent flyer program		none
Member lounge		none
Alliance		none
Fleet size		8
Destinations		14
Parent company		Vuela Compañia de Aviación
Headquarters		Toluca, Mexico
Key people		Enrique Beltranena (CEO)
Website: http://www.volaris.com.mx

Volaris is the commercial brand of the Mexican group Concesionaria Vuela Compañía de Aviación S.A. de C.V., a low-fare airline based in the city of Toluca, Mexico State. The name Volaris was selected among 1000 proposals, representing a fusion between the word volar (to fly) and Polaris a star in the sky that indicated north to ancient travelers.

Its headquarters and operational base are located at the Lic. Adolfo López Mateos International Airport in Toluca, known as Mexico City's secondary airport due to its proximity of only 50 kilometers to the west (around 31 miles). Volaris selected this airport because it is not as congestionated as Mexico City's and because of the reduction of costs it represents. Volaris also provides free transportation from Toluca Airport to Mexico City's Santa Fé area.

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The inauguration of activities was held with a ceremony at the Lic. Adolfo López Mateos International Airport (TLC) in which President of Mexico Vicente Fox cut the inauguration ribbon. Volaris' first flight was a Toluca-Tijuana trip on March 13, 2006.

The founding and owner partners of Volaris are Protego Discovery Fund, Grupo Televisa the world's biggest Spanish mass media conglomerate, Inbursa (a Mexican bank owned by billionaire Carlos Slim) and Grupo TACA, the national airline of El Salvador. Each of these partners invested 25% of the initial cost of activities, accounting $100 million USD. In October 2006 Airbus started the delivery of the first of 16 A319 on order.

[edit] Destinations

[edit] Fleet

Volaris' Airbus A319

As of January 2007 the Volaris fleet includes ^[1] :

8 Airbus A319-100 (plus 11 on order)

Volaris has signed an order for 11 more new aircraft of the same model, for delivery in 2007, 2008 and 2009 with a configuration of 144 seats in a single class. The same contract has options for 40 additional A319. The separation pitch between each seat is 32 inches. Seats are made of leather. In April Volaris announced it also has option for 40 A320.^{[citation needed]}

Due to the experience of TACA the engines selected for Volaris' fleet were the model V2500 of the company International Aero Engines.