Canadian low-cost airline Flair announced new non-stop flights between Mexico City (AICM) and two major Canadian cities: Toronto (YYZ) and Vancouver (YVR), starting late October 2025.
With these routes, Flair will become the first low-cost airline to offer direct connections between Canada and Mexico City, competing directly with Aeroméxico and Air Canada, but with considerably lower prices.
According to the carrier’s press release, prices start at CAD $160 (US $116) for the Mexico City-Toronto route, and CAD $141 (US $102) for the Mexico City-Vancouver route.
“For too long, flights to Mexico City have been out of reach for too many,” said Maciej Wilk, CEO of Flair Airlines, in the press release.
“We’re changing that. Flair is the only value airline in Canada, making it possible for customers to explore the capital of Mexico, and for Mexicans to discover all that Toronto and Vancouver have to offer.”
Both routes are set to operate three times a week per the following schedules:
YVR – AICM
Start: Oct. 27, 2025
Frequency: Mondays, Fridays and Sundays
Departure from YVR: 4:10 p.m. Arrival at AICM: 11:45 p.m.
Return from AICM: 12:45 a.m. Arrival at YVR: 4:55 a.m.
YYZ – AICM
Start: Oct. 28, 2025
Frequency: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
Departure from YYZ: 7:15 p.m. Arrival at AICM: 11:45 p.m.
Return from AICM: 12:45 a.m. Arrival at YYZ: 6:25 a.m.
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Acting Consul General of Mexico in Canada Luis Hernandez celebrated the news, saying that “Mexico and Canada have long enjoyed a close and dynamic relationship, connecting families, businesses and curious travellers who explore each other’s rich cultures,” adding that the new routes strengthen the link between the two nations.
These new routes add to Flair’s existing routes from Toronto and Vancouver to Cancún, Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta. According to CEO Maciej Wilk, these routes have been “highly successful” and have not been negatively impacted by the new visa requirements that went into force in 2024 for Mexican visitors to Canada.
“The visa requirement is what it is but we do not have problems with filling up our aircraft in and out of Mexico. I’m not concerned,” he stressed.
Flair is a Canadian ultra-low-cost airline founded in 2005 and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. Initially operating charter and cargo flights, since 2017 it has focused on scheduled passenger flights, primarily within Canada and to destinations in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America.
With reports from Business Intelligence for B.C.
Why to AICM when all they do is move other airlines out to NLU because there isn’t enough space and the traffic volume is to high??? What else are they paying to get the AICM slot???? Make them to to NLU and start using that brand new airport with almost no traffic and people going out of it. I flew out of it last year to ZIH and it was a ghost town.
Hello, Just heard about FLAIR service YVR to MEX and YVR to MEX. Where is NLU and AICM. AICM is the new Mexico city airport on the East side of that city? Is this a club service? or is open to everybody? Thanks. My email is: d.sheppard@mail.com Living in Mexico. Just did a roundtrip to YVR with my wife recently. D.Sheppard
You also need to add on a night at a hotel near the airport as most of flairs flights arrive in Canada very late at night
Did you read the article on the arrival times before you commented?
….question begs… how did Flair get any landing slots at CDMX (AICM)… this while the government is trying to get traffic moved over to the new airport? There has been a lot of resistance to moving by most carriers… their core $ customers.. the business class Suits want nothing to do with a 1hr communte to downtown (on a good day), nor are they interested in rubbing shoulders with the unwashed on the Metro…
“rubbing shoulders with the unwashed “…..????? 😲
You mean the bread and butter of Mexico? The real working class of Mexico? The 2/3rds of the people of Mexico who do the dirty work for the business suits? Shame on you
….yeah, Flair arrives YVR from PVR at around 1:am… earliest connecting flight to YCD (Nanaimo) is around 8am.. a $300/nite hotel room in Vancouver makes no sense… so you sit around in the terminal drinking coffee to stay awake. Flair is OK for folks who live in the lower mainland and can get picked up late, want to take a $$ taxi or UBER (the LRT is shut down by then) … but for the rest of us…not so much.