{"id":495367,"date":"2026-02-24T02:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495367\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T02:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:41:18","slug":"westjet-air-transat-resuming-mexico-flights-after-eruption-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495367\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet, Air Transat resuming Mexico flights after eruption of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Canadian airlines are resuming service on Tuesday to parts of Mexico after cancelling flights over widespread violence.<br \/>\n WestJet says it will resume scheduled operations to and from Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara and Manzanillo.<\/p>\n<p>Two Canadian airlines are resuming service on Tuesday to parts of Mexico after cancelling flights over widespread violence.<\/p>\n<p>WestJet says it will resume scheduled operations to and from Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara and Manzanillo.<\/p>\n<p>It says the move followed a &#8220;thorough review of the current conditions&#8221; and that it will continue monitoring developments.<\/p>\n<p>Air Transat says it is doing the same for flights to and from Puerto Vallarta.<\/p>\n<p>The airline says that according to local authorities, no incidents related to road blockages have been reported in Jalisco state since midnight and that security measures had been reinforced. <\/p>\n<p>Tourists and locals in multiple regions of Mexico were told to shelter in place to escape violence that erupted on Sunday after the death of a notorious cartel leader as part of a government operation.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Canadian airlines are resuming service on Tuesday to parts of Mexico after cancelling flights over widespread violence.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-495367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}