“This news (of potential cancellation) comes to us on the eve of the inaugural flight.
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She said she called the airline multiple times for an update and was unable to get a clear answer.Īt 9:32 p.m., a city attorney was emailing Volaris officials in an urgent attempt to resolve the matter. They cemented details for a Sunport-sponsored Albuquerque Isotopes baseball game during which a sweepstakes winner would receive two Volaris tickets to Chihuahua.īut, by that night, everything had changed.Īlbuquerque Aviation Director Nyika Allen was in Chihuahua and planning to fly home with Keller and María Eugenia Campos Galván when she heard rumblings that Volaris planned to scrap the Albuquerque-to-Chihuahua service after operating just a few flights. They discussed pitching an Albuquerque-Chihuahua story to The New York Times.
They tweaked the event’s catering schedule. The two would arrive on a new Volaris Airlines flight from Chihuahua and participate in “a celebration and formal press conference” inaugurating the flight, the media advisory said.Ĭity Hall and airport staff worked the rest of the day to prepare. On the morning of June 24, an Albuquerque International Sunport spokeswoman emailed reporters to say that Mayor Tim Keller and his counterpart from Chihuahua, Mexico, would fly into the airport together the next day. Volaris Airlines pulled out of the Albuquerque market about seven months after arriving, saying there was not enough passenger demand for its flights to Guadalajara and Chihuahua, Mexico.
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