Airlines suspend some Jalisco flights due to security concerns; Bus service affected across the country

The relation of the Guadalajara International Airport said Sunday that nary incidents had occurred wrong the facility, contempt reports of the beingness of equipped men.

In a connection posted to X aboriginal Sunday afternoon, the Pacific Airport Group (GAP) said that the Guadalajara Airport was operating normally, conscionable hours aft the person of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, was killed successful a national information cognition successful Jalisco.

Jalisco cartel main ‘El Mencho’ killed successful Mexican Army operation

GAP said determination were nary cancelations oregon impacts connected flights related to events successful Jalisco, wherever fiery narco-blockades appeared connected highways and roads connected Sunday morning.

“The situations recorded successful assorted areas of the authorities are not impacting the interior cognition of the airdrome terminal nor information wrong the facilities,” it said.

“The aerial terminal is nether the extortion of the National Guard and the Ministry of National Defense,” GAP added.

The airdrome relation said that nary incidents had occurred wrong the airdrome and declared determination was nary hazard to passengers, airdrome workers oregon visitors.

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Apparently referring to video footage showing radical panicking and moving wrong Guadalajara Airport, GAP said that “information and material” circulating connected societal media “doesn’t correspond to situations of hazard wrong the terminals, but alternatively hysteria among passengers.”

GAP released its connection aft immoderate media outlets, including the paper La Jornada, reported the beingness of equipped men successful the Guadalajara airport.

An MND root who was astatine the airdrome said that everyone abruptly started running, contempt determination being nary evident threat.

Earlier successful the day, the Guadalajara Airport advised passengers to let other clip to arrive  owed to “unforeseen situations” connected the road to Chapala that whitethorn alteration postulation conditions.

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Meanwhile, Air Canada said connected X that “due to an ongoing information concern successful Puerto Vallarta impacting the @VallartaAirport, Air Canada has temporarily suspended operations determination today.”

“We are monitoring the concern and are successful interaction with section authorities who are moving to resoluteness the issue,” the hose said.

“Customers are advised not to effort to spell to the airdrome unless their formation is shown arsenic operating connected http://aircanada.com, and volition beryllium straight notified of changes to their itineraries. We volition stock much accusation arsenic soon arsenic it becomes available,” Air Canada said. 

In a abstracted statement, GAP said that immoderate flights from Manzanillo airdrome had been canceled. That airdrome is located successful the authorities of Colima, which borders Jalisco.

GAP advised passengers to interaction their airlines to get up-to-date accusation astir the presumption of their flight. That proposal appears dependable for anyone traveling to oregon from Guadalajara, and airports successful neighboring states, connected Sunday.

Some autobus services person besides been canceled oregon delayed, presumably owed to the hazard of unit connected Mexican highways this Sunday arsenic CJNG members respond to the decease of Oseguera Cervantes, who was wanted some successful Mexico and the United States. One affected work was that betwixt Mexico City’s bluish autobus terminal and the metropolis of San Miguel de Allende successful the authorities of Guanajuato.

Mexico News Daily