New Dublin-Cancún flight to take off in 2026

Ireland’s flagship aerial bearer Aer Lingus has announced it volition motorboat a caller non-stop way betwixt Dublin and Cancún starting adjacent year. 

The way volition beryllium a seasonal flight, operating 3 times a week from January 6 to April 29, onboard an Airbus A330-300 wide-body aircraft. The work volition chiefly service travelers looking to flight the Irish wintertime and bask the tropical clime of the Mexican Caribbean.  

Flights volition depart from Dublin connected Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays astatine 1:30 p.m., arriving successful Cancún astatine 6:20 p.m. The instrumentality formation from Cancún volition depart connected the aforesaid time astatine 9:05 p.m., arriving successful Dublin astatine 11:20 a.m. the pursuing day.

“Our probe reveals a beardown appetite among customers for caller question experiences, peculiarly seasonal destinations beyond the highest summertime period,” the carrier’s CEO Lynne Embleton said successful a statement. 

Aer Lingus, portion of the hose radical that includes Iberia, British Airways, Vueling and Level, noted that this caller way besides facilitates connections for passengers from different European cities and the United Kingdom via its Dublin hub.

Currently, circuit relation TUI offers charter flights to Cancún from Dublin. However, Aer Lingus volition go the archetypal hose to supply a non-stop formation from Ireland, the institution remarked.  

Connections from Dublin International Airport to Cancún volition beryllium disposable from Edinburgh and 8 different UK airports, including Glasgow, Manchester, and London Heathrow. (Wikimedia Commons)

Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa celebrated the announcement successful a statement. 

“Quintana Roo, [and] the Mexican Caribbean, invited and observe the archetypal nonstop Dublin-Cancún formation from Aer Lingus. We volition enactment unneurotic with our spouse Aer Lingus to marque this a palmy operation,” Lezama said. 

The Mexican Embassy successful Dublin besides celebrated Aer Lingus’s caller flight, which coincides with the 50th day of the constitution of diplomatic relations betwixt the 2 countries. Ambassador Carolina Zaragoza Flores noted that the determination volition fortify Mexico’s presumption arsenic Ireland’s largest trading spouse successful Latin America.  

“This important improvement […] volition undoubtedly foster adjacent stronger economical ties and pb to a strategical partnership,” Zaragoza said. 

Aer Lingus was founded successful 1936 nether the sanction Aer Lingus Teoranta, which means “air fleet” successful Irish.

With reports from EFE and Aviación Online