{"id":27404,"date":"2025-10-30T06:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27404\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:34:12","slug":"trump-administration-cuts-new-flight-from-austin-to-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27404\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration cuts new flight from Austin to Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s Department of Transportation is cutting flights between Mexico City and a number of U.S. cities, including Austin, as federal officials accuse Mexico of \u201canti-competitive behavior\u201d in violation of a 2015 aviation pact.<\/p>\n<p>The move will halt Viva Aerobus&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/transportation\/article\/delta-viva-offer-nonstop-flights-austin-20826404.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planned new route<\/a> between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Mexico City\u2019s Felipe \u00c1ngeles International Airport, which was set to launch in late November and operate three times per week.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT announced the order Tuesday, prohibiting Mexican airlines from operating \u201ccombination service\u201d \u2014 flights that transport both passengers and cargo \u2014 between U.S. airports and Felipe \u00c1ngeles International, which opened in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The order also ends existing Aerom\u00e9xico service from Felipe \u00c1ngeles to Houston and McAllen, and blocks proposed Viva Aerobus flights to Houston Bush, Dallas-Fort Worth and six other U.S. cities.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. transportation officials pointed to a 2023 Mexican order banning cargo-only operations at Benito Ju\u00e1rez International Airport, or MEX, the nation\u2019s largest airport. The DOT claims Mexico is violating the 2015 bilateral aviation agreement by giving Mexican carriers an unfair competitive advantage, allowing them to continue operating combination flights at MEX while restricting U.S. carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico also revoked permits for three American and three Mexican carriers to operate at MEX in what it said was an effort to reduce congestion at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexico has illegally cancelled and frozen U.S. carrier flights for three years without consequences. All the while, Mexican carriers have been adding new routes and services between MEX and the United States,\u201d the department said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/briefing-room\/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-slashes-13-mexican-carrier-routes-us\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accused the Mexican government of intentionally interfering with American carriers&#8217; ability to compete in Mexico by forcing cargo operations\u00a0to move to Felipe \u00c1ngeles, about 28 miles from the city center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil Mexico stops the games and honors its commitments, we will continue to hold them accountable,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cNo country should be able to take advantage of our carriers, our market, and our flyers without repercussions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Department of Transportation is cutting flights between Mexico City and a number of U.S. cities, including Austin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,17161,910,251,216],"class_list":["post-27404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-bergstrom-international-airport-abia","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}