Touching down at the Calgary International Airport Tuesday night are some of the first flights returning from Puerto Vallarta, carrying Canadians who were caught in the Mexican city when cartel violence broke out.<\/p>\n
This comes as flights to and from Puerto Vallarta resumed Tuesday<\/a>, with two departures from Calgary International Airport leaving in the morning \u2014 earlier than expected as carriers worked to restore normal operations.<\/p>\n Canadian airlines\u00a0resumed service to Puerto Vallarta<\/a>\u00a0after tourists and locals in multiple regions of Mexico were told to shelter in place<\/a> to escape violence that erupted on Sunday after the death of a notorious cartel leader as part of a government operation.<\/p>\n Some arriving in Calgary said they saw the Mexican army in the streets, and many gas stations and convenience stores were torched, with buses lit on fire blocking the roads.<\/p>\n But despite describing harrowing scenes, many we spoke with said their view of the country hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Mexicans were telling us to go inside, and there was a lot of people running from places where the fires had just started,\u201d Montana Dunn told CityNews.<\/p>\n \u201cIt didn\u2019t feel unsafe at any point. I\u2019ve seen people saying it was apocalyptic and a warzone, but it was not that feeling at all to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the concerning events that unfolded in the Jalisco state of Mexico, many were happy that flights resumed as quickly as they did, thankful to be back on Canadian soil.<\/p>\n \u201cI was just totally shocked, I thought we\u2019d be there for 4-5 more days. I did hear, though, there are people that are going to be there for maybe up to a week,\u201d said Vincent Lapointe.<\/p>\n One of those people is a friend of Dunn\u2019s who is still stuck in Mexico.<\/p>\n \u201cHer flight was cancelled for I think it was 10 days. She was supposed to fly back today, and then the flight they booked her on was March 6,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n As more Canadians arrive home from vacations that didn\u2019t go as planned, some expressed gratitude for their safety and those living in the area. <\/p>\n \u201cWe were in an all-inclusive resort, so it was fine. I felt sorry for the staff because they stayed there the night. Bless their hearts, they worked so hard,\u201d Colleen Toothill said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, some of these travellers say lower ticket prices could incentivize them to head right back.<\/p>\n With files from Edward Djan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Touching down at the Calgary International Airport Tuesday night are some of the first flights returning from Puerto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-498979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498979","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=498979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}