Friday, June 6, 2025

Got 1 min? First Canadian airline announces flights to Tulum

Air Canada has become the first Canadian airline to announce service to the new Felipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport in Tulum.

Starting in May, Air Canada will connect the sunny destination with Toronto and Montreal, year-round. 

Tulum international airpot
The new Tulum airport began operations on Dec. 1 and currently operates only domestic flights. (Mara Lezama/X)

The airline will operate twice-weekly flights between Toronto and Tulum on Fridays and Sundays and the Montreal-Tulum route will operate every Saturday.  

Airline Vice President Mark Galardo, said that the new destination reflects “Air Canada’s market leadership and network diversification strategy of adding capacity to in-demand leisure destinations such as Tulum.”

The new airport started operations on Dec. 1 with five daily domestic flights and will receive international flights in early 2024.

“I celebrate this great announcement from Air Canada,” Mexico’s Tourism Minister Miguel Torruco Marqués said, adding that the airport has capacity to receive five million passengers per year, which will “boost the arrival of tourists from our second-most important source market for international tourists.”

Tulum’s new airport comes as the town recently won the Best Beach Destination in Mexico and Central America at the World Travel Awards 2023.

U.S. airlines carriers that have announced flights to Tulum include United Airlines, Delta, American Airlines, Spirit and as of this week, JetBlue, which will offer daily nonstop flights from New York’s JFK airport starting in June. 

With reports from Travel and Leisure, Simple Flying and Yahoo Finance

Have something to say? Paid Subscribers get all access to make & read comments.
A statue of a dog from one of Pueblas museums

The 10 coolest museums in Puebla (and where to find them)

0
Ancient history, a colonial library and the birthplace of the revolution all await visitors to Puebla and its surrounds.
A hand holds a phone showing a dating app match screen

Be careful with dating apps, US Embassy warns after kidnappings in Puerto Vallarta

0
The incident that set off the alert involved four foreigners who used a dating app while vacationing in Jalisco, the governor said.
train line through Central America

A modern railway through Central America could link Panama with Mexico by 2035

0
The railway project's leaders hope to spur economic growth and reduce migration pressures by modernizing cargo and travel corridors across Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.