United Airlines has announced that it will charge fees for a second checked bag for many of its international flights.
AeroMexico, the biggest airline in Mexico, has started the first non-stop international flight between New Orleans, in south-eastern Louisiana, the United States, and Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, since the 2005 Hurricane Katrina.
VivaAerobus, the low-cost airline based in Monterrey, Mexico, is ending its service out of Austin, Texas, the United States, to Mexico on May 31, 2009.
Several major airlines based in the United States have temporarily stopped flying to Mexico because of poor demand for flights to Mexico, which has been hit by an outbreak of swine flu.
A meeting of the Health Ministers of the European Union (EU) has rejected a proposal by France to stop flights to and from Mexico, the country which has been hit by swine flu.
Countries, airlines as well as travel and tour operators, have canceled flights to and from Mexico because of the outbreak of the swine flu in Mexico.