{"id":1080,"date":"2016-04-27T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2016-04-27T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T21:33:38","slug":"volaris-coming-to-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Volaris coming to Austin, with nonstop service to Guadalajara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volaris is coming to Austin, Texas, with nonstop service to Guadalajara. The low cost Mexico airline will also be offering connecting service to Hermosillo, Los Cabos, Mexicali,\u00a0Mexico City, Monterrey, and Tijuana. The addition of the central Texas\u00a0city has been confirmed by airline, and Austin already appears on the Volaris websites route map and flight reservation system. The service is scheduled to\u00a0launch on Sunday August 7th, with flights operating on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. The outbound flights will leave Austin at 1:20 p.m., arriving in Guadalajara at 3:28 p.m. Return flights leave Guadalajara at 9:33 a.m., arriving back in Austin at 11:50 a.m. Current round trip fares start at around $260.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can book your flights\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reservaciones.volaris.com\/Flight\/Select?o1=AUS&amp;d1=GDL&amp;dd1=08\/07\/2016&amp;o2=GDL&amp;d2=AUS&amp;dd2=08\/11\/2016&amp;s=true\" target=\"_blank\">www.volaris.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volaris history<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The airline\u00a0was\u00a0founded back\u00a0in August of 2005 under the original name of Vuela Airlines.\u00a0Initial\u00a0investors in\u00a0the company\u00a0included Grupo Televisa, Carlos Slim&#8217;s Inbursa Insurance Company, TACA Airlines (now part of Avianca),\u00a0and the Discovery Americas Fund. Each partner\u00a0owned one quarter of the new airline. In 2010,\u00a0it was reported that Televisa and Inbursa had sold their stake in Volaris to U.S. based\u00a0Indigo Partners. Scheduled service began\u00a0in March of\u00a02006.\u00a0Volaris then announced a\u00a0codeshare partnership with Southwest Airlines in 2008.\u00a0The airline stayed out of Mexico City originally, due to heavy competition and high costs of operating at the Benito Juarez International\u00a0Airport. The airline would then\u00a0acquire gates, slots, and routes at the Mexico City Airport from bankrupt\u00a0Mexicana Airlines.\u00a0Flights out of Mexico City began\u00a0in September of 2010. The airline then moved the majority of its Toluca flights to create a new flight connection hub in Guadalajara. The airline then\u00a0formed its first international codeshare partnership with Condor Airlines of Germany\u00a0in September\u00a0of\u00a02012.\u00a0Volaris and Southwest ended their codesharing agreement in February of 2013 following Southwest&#8217;s acquisition of AirTran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1089\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/volaris-300x102.jpg\" alt=\"volaris\" width=\"641\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/volaris-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/volaris-768x261.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/volaris-1024x348.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Photo from Airbus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volaris is coming to Austin, Texas, with nonstop service to Guadalajara. The low cost Mexico airline will also be offering connecting service to Hermosillo, Los Cabos, Mexicali,\u00a0Mexico City, Monterrey, and Tijuana. The addition of the central Texas\u00a0city has been confirmed by airline, and Austin already appears on the Volaris websites route map and flight reservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}