Mexicana to Suspend All Operations Friday Night

[NYCA News]

NYCAviation:

Mexicana to Suspend All Operations Friday Night (http://nycaviation.com/2010/08/27/mexicana-to-suspend-all-operations-friday-night/)

Ailing Mexicana de Aviacion, Mexico's largest air carrier, will suspend all operations at midnight this Friday due to lack of funds.
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[ISP Pilot]

Looks like there will be one final opportunity to catch a Mexicana flight at JFK. MX 860 is inbound from CUN. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MXA860/history/20100827/2245Z/MMUN/KJFK The return to CUN, MXA 861 has been departing around 9 am according to flightaware, that is if the plane does depart. Such a shame for an airline with an 89 year history. Hope they will be able to fly again.

[Jbong]

Well I dont thinkthats going to happen. Wells Fargo is already looking for Buyers.

[NLovis]

Hmm. I was wondering why i didnt see any mexicana blue falcons today. Now I know. Also I guess you can use this as a confirm that they didnt fly. I didnt like the A/C but I did like their new falcon scheme. 89 years. Never knew that. Well glad I decided to pop in today.

[Speedbird1]

Wasn't Mexicana a relatively recent addition to JFK? I never saw any Blue Falcons in the 80's and 90's. When did they start service to JFK?

[Ari707]

Mexicana has been comming to JFK for at least since the 80's first with the gold DC-10's and 727'sthen the multi colored tails on the DC-10's and A-320s

[hiss srq]

Don't forget the 757's they used to bring to JFK< as well. Old reliable RR powered 757's.

[NLovis]

Wasn't Mexicana a relatively recent addition to JFK? I never saw any Blue Falcons in the 80's and 90's. When did they start service to JFK?

The falcon scheme was a very recent new paint they implemented. They started paint overs a few months before being accepted into OW

[Matt Molnar]

Continental is now offering stranded Mexicana passengers stand-by seats for $100...not bad: http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/content/news/travelnotices.aspx?IAID=SOC?IAT=Twi

[Delta777LR]

Don't forget the 757's they used to bring to JFK< as well. Old reliable RR powered 757's.

I thought they had PW engines..

[Matt Molnar]

American is adding flights to MEX from DFW and MIA to make up for the lost Mexicana flights.

[Iberia A340-600]

A rather sad picture from MEX:

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRUNETWO/MexicanaFB.jpg

[Ari707]

P&W from the pic's I've seen of their 757's http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5801422&nseq=13