The Travel Bargain

Aviacsa is a low-cost airline with a wide network of Mexican (and a few US) destinations. Every Tuesday, Aviacsa has special discount sales. Aviacsa flies non-stop from Tijuana Airport to Acapulco, Cancun, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, León, Merida, Mexico City, Monterrey, Morelia, and Oaxaca. From Tijuana Airport, Aviacsa offer connecting flights with plane changes to Chetumal, Puerta Vallarta, Tampico, Tapachula, Tuxtla Gutierrez (Chiapas), Veracruz, and Villahermosa.

Volaris is a low-cost carrier based at Toluca Airport near Mexico City. From Tijuana, Volaris has at least daily non-stop flights to Aguascalientes, Guadalajara (3 times daily), León, Los Cabos, Morelia, Puebla, and Toluca (3 times daily). A daily flight to Cancun requires a stop in Puebla.

Aero California is a low-cost carrier serving around 20 destinations in Mexico. Aero California has non-stop flights from Tijuana to Ciudad Obregon, Colima, Culiacán, Chihuahua, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, La Paz, Los Mochis, and Torreón. (Flights are not necessarily non-stop in both directions and available daily.) Aero California has direct flights with stops from Tijuana to Mazatlan, Mexico City (MEX), Merida, Monterrey, Puebla, Tepic, and Veracruz.

Aviacsa is a low-cost airline with a wide network of Mexican (and a few US) destinations. Every Tuesday, Aviacsa has special discount sales. Aviacsa flies non-stop from Tijuana Airport to Acapulco, Cancun, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, León, Merida, Mexico City, Monterrey, Morelia, and Oaxaca. From Tijuana Airport, Aviacsa offer connecting flights with plane changes to Chetumal, Puerta Vallarta, Tampico, Tapachula, Tuxtla Gutierrez (Chiapas), Veracruz, and Villahermosa.

Volaris is a low-cost carrier based at Toluca Airport near Mexico City. From Tijuana, Volaris has at least daily non-stop flights to Aguascalientes, Guadalajara (3 times daily), León, Los Cabos, Morelia, Puebla, and Toluca (3 times daily). A daily flight to Cancun requires a stop in Puebla.

Aero California is a low-cost carrier serving around 20 destinations in Mexico. Aero California has non-stop flights from Tijuana to Ciudad Obregon, Colima, Culiacán, Chihuahua, Durango, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, La Paz, Los Mochis, and Torreón. (Flights are not necessarily non-stop in both directions and available daily.) Aero California has direct flights with stops from Tijuana to Mazatlan, Mexico City (MEX), Merida, Monterrey, Puebla, Tepic, and Veracruz.

Low-cost airline Alma de Mexico flies daily non-stop from Tijuana to Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, La Paz, and Los Mochis. Alma de Mexico flies direct with stops but no plane changes from Tijuana to Chihuahua, Guadalajara, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta.

Tijuana based Avolar was the first truly low-cost airline in Mexico. Avolar has direct flights from Tijuana to Acapulco, Colima, Cuernavaca, Culiacán (NS), Durango (NS), Guadalajara, La Paz (NS), Morelia, León (Bajio), Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tepic (NS), Toluca near Mexico City (NS), and Uruapan. NS indicate flights that are always non-stop – many other flights are at times non-stop flights in one direction only or only on certain days.

Cheap flights on Mexican budget and low cost airlines are available from Tijuana Airport (TIJ – or officially General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport) to numerous destinations in Mexico (and Tokyo, Japan!).

Budget airlines usually require reservations to be made on their own websites making price comparisons more difficult. Furthermore, full-service airlines and booking agencies often offer cheaper low fares too on slow selling and inconveniently timed flights. It is sensible to use large airline reservations services first to establish price guidelines before making reservations on the budget airline site.

British Airways has cut the prices on an array of flights to destinations around Europe. Fares are available to big cities as Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris from € 55, or sunny destinations as Malaga, Tenerife and Larnaca from € 72. Flights are available from London City, Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester. Travel before March 31, 2008.

Flybe will add new flights from Jersey to Aberdeen and Doncaster from May 3, 2008. Tickets are available for booking.

Clickair is launching two new routes from their base in Barcelona to the Canary Islands. From January 23, 2008 they will begin operating flights to Arrecife, and from January 26 to Fuerteventura.

Finnair will, starting this Monday, up their number of flights from Helsinki to Bangkok to two per day. They will keep flying two-a-days until March 29, 2008. Come June 2008, Finnair will launch their 11th route to an Asian destination, Seoul, the capital of South Korea.