Airlines such as Air Canada, Delta, and United Airlines continued to cancel flights to and from the Mexican city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, on Monday due to the violence that erupted following the death of drug kingpin Nemesio Oseguera, alias “El Mencho,” in an operation by Mexican security forces.
The Puerto Vallarta Airport displayed canceled flights on Monday from the U.S. airlines United, Delta, Sun Country, Alaska Airlines, and Southwest, as well as the Canadian airlines WestJet and Air Canada. Among the affected U.S. cities were Houston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Denver, San Diego, Detroit, Atlanta, Santa Ana, San Jose, New York, and Phoenix, in addition to the Canadian cities of Edmonton, Saskatoon, Toronto, Kelowna, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Regina.
In contrast, American Airlines flights continued as scheduled, while in Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco, operations persisted from Atlanta, Houston, Phoenix, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, San Jose, Denver, Anchorage, and Los Angeles, with only Salt Lake City flights canceled from the United States.
Given these events, the U.S. State Department maintained a travel advisory on Monday, issued on Sunday, “due to ongoing security operations, related road blockades, and criminal activity,” urging “U.S. citizens in several Mexican cities to shelter in place.”
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum assured the public on Monday during her morning press conference that “all highways are open, traffic is flowing freely,” and that airlines “suspended some flights as a precaution,” but she expects that “flights will resume during the day or, at the latest, tomorrow.”
