Mexicana Airbus A318A Airbus A318 from Mexicana airlines landing at San Francisco. Registration is XA-UBV.
Compañía Mexicana de Aviación, S.A. de C.V., commonly known as Mexicana, was the first airline established in Mexico. Today, in addition to domestic services, it is the country's largest international airline in terms of most passengers transported, operating services to North America, Central America, the Caribbean, South America and Europe. As well Mexico's Flag Carrier. Its primary hub is Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport, with hubs at Cancún International Airport, and Guadalajara's Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport.
Mexicana's main competitor is Aeroméxico, although the two companies "code-share" on several routes and were merged for more than a decade. It is North America's oldest airline and the world's third oldest airline operating under the same name, after the Netherlands' KLM and Colombian's Avianca.
The airline joined Star Alliance in 2000, but left the alliance and joined Oneworld on November 10, 2009
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