Cancún rings in the New Year with 17 new international flights 

New Year, caller routes. For Cancún, that means nary less than 17 caller flights for 2026, connecting Mexico’s Caribbean seashore to cities successful the United States, Canada and adjacent Ireland, on with an further home way to and from Saltillo, Coahuila.

Of the 17 planetary routes launching done June 2026, 11 volition link to U.S. cities, 5 to Canadian cities, and 1 to Dublin, marking the archetypal non-stop formation betwixt Cancún and Ireland.

Quintana Roo Gov. Mara Lezama announced the caller flights this week, promising they would assistance amended the state’s economy. (Mara Lezama/Facebook)

“We volition proceed to beforehand connectivity truthful that the Mexican Caribbean remains a satellite person successful tourism, said Mara Lezama, politician of Quintana Roo, Cancún’s state, successful an announcement. “The translation is moving forward.”

The confirmed routes see Oklahoma City–Cancún, operated by American Airlines from Dec. 6 to April 4; Toronto–Cancún and Hamilton–Cancun, operated by Porter Airlines since Dec. 12; and 1 from Cozumel to Calgary with WestJet from Dec. 20 until April 11. 

As of Jan. 6, Aer Lingus volition commencement operating the way to Dublin. 

Breeze Airways volition motorboat its Cancún–Charleston and Cancún–Norfolk routes this month, and its Cancún–New Orleans and Cancún–Providence routes successful February. 

Air Transat volition link Cancún with Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and Fredericton, New Brunswick, some starting successful February, portion Southwest volition inaugurate its Las Vegas–Cancún way connected June 4. Sun Country Airlines volition run the Tulsa–Cancún way starting May 21, portion Frontier Airlines volition motorboat its Charlotte–Cancún, Chicago Midway–Cancún, and Raleigh-Durham–Cancún routes successful March.

The Saltillo-Cancún nationalist way volition beryllium operated by Viva Aerobus starting March 29.

Lezama noted that each caller aerial transportation represents much visitors, much jobs, and greater well-being for Quintana Roo families, and reiterated that she volition proceed moving to guarantee that shared prosperity reaches everyone successful the state. 

While Cancún International Airport remains 1 of Mexico’s busiest airports, it didn’t execute arsenic expected successful 2025. Francisco Madrid Flores, caput of the Center for Advanced Research successful Sustainable Tourism (STARC) astatine Anáhuac University Cancún, said that the twelvemonth showed irregular behavior, particularly successful the planetary market, owed to “a deficiency of a capable proviso of seats connected routes to the Caribbean.”

However, the manufacture is opening to amusement a sustained betterment with encouraging projections for 2026, successful portion owed to the caller announced routes, Madrid said. 

With reports from EFE