AEROMÉXICO CELEBRATES 75 YEARS TRAVELLING TO ACAPULCO

• On September 14, 1934 began the history of one of the most emblematic airlines of our country with its first flight with destination to Acapulco.

75 years ago, Acapulco of Juárez, Guerrero was a village with not more than five thousand inhabitants that he(she) was at the foot of a bay of enormous beauty, a place of dream which only a few adventurers of the capital could enjoy after an unforgettable trip of two days of duration. On November 7, 1932, a diary published "Very shortly it will begin the urbanization of the resort Los Hornos, which proposes making the Driving Company Acapulco, S.A., constructing at the same time ten summer residences more, which will come to add to the already existing ones in this picturesque place. The above mentioned resort will be very prompt the principal attraction of the port for the tourists and peoples of good taste because there they will find the whole necessary comfort to pass the short and the long seasons".

From this moment, Acapulco turned into a goal to be reached by a good number of pilots, since it was a paradise done to the measure for all these pioneers of the air. Cloyd Clevenger, pilot North American taken root in Mexico, obtained a permission to establish an air route of passengers' service and mail of regular form between the Mexico City and Acapulco with scales in Retainer and Chilpancingo.

To this project Mexico - Acapulco was named as Air Line, the first flight took off on December 3, 1932 of the Mexico City, accompanied by other two planes, on having come to the field of Los Hornos, were got for a public's great quantity and local authorities. In 1934, the Mexican businessman Antonio Díaz Lombardo established a company of aviation. The new company would show the name of Aircraft of Mexico, S.A. (Constituted legally on November 7, 1934), name that would be a reference forced in the Mexican aviation. On September 9, it was promising to be in the newspaper the beginning of the new air service without scales between the capital and the port that would last only an hour forty minutes with a cost of $30.00 pesos for passenger in simple trip, whereas the service of express and messenger company would have a value of $0.50 kilo.

The morning of September 14, 1934, the history began of one of the most emblematic airlines of our country, Aircraft of Mexico (Aeroméxico), with the first flight with destiny Acapulco in the plane Stinson MR. following the Balbuena-Chalco-Cuautla-Iguala-Chilpancingo-Acapulco route.

The Stinson MR. of Aircraft of Mexico came without misadventures to the field of Los Hornos, in Acapulco, where it was got by Don Antonio Díaz Lombardo, as well as representatives of Civil Aeronautics and the local government and a public's great quantity, remaining like that established the air regular service between the Mexico City and Acapulco. The growth of the air operations and the biggest new and modern planes, soon they made the airfield insufficient in Los Hornos beach, that on July 11, 1946 there was inaugurated the airport of Pie de la Cuesta. For the decade of the 50's, Acapulco reaches the internationalization and turns into the icon of the glamour and fashion of the epoch, at the level of the Riviera Francesa or Hawaii. In April, 1954 the first direct service is established to Guadalajara and to Tijuana from the port.

On April 23, the International Airport inaugurated Plan of the Amates to the southwest of the port, close to the lagoon of Tres Palos. There are established the first international direct flights to Los Angeles and New York, thanks to the Bristol Britannia of Aircraft of Mexico and there began to arrive at the port emblematic airlines like Eastern Airlines Braniff International and Western Airlines.

In the sixties, Acapulco would continue conquering to the entire world and Aircraft of Mexico it does a small honoring to the place that saw her to be born as airline, on May 10, 1962, there receives its second jet, a Douglas DC8 series 51, is baptized proudly by the name of Acapulco, the same day the new plane inaugurates the age of the jet in the route Mexico - Acapulco, leading to all the managers of airport and stations of the system of Aircraft of Mexico, to a meeting work celebrated in the port. The progress of Acapulco was spectacular and it forced the government to improve the facilities of the airport. On April 31, 1966 the airport passed to form a part of the patrimony of Airports and Auxiliary Services and for decree Juan N obtained the name of International Airport. Álvarez.

On the first of June, 1974, Aircraft of Mexico, using AEROMÉXICO's trade name it introduces the DC10-30, for 277 passengers (22 in the first class) in the flights of Acapulco to Mexico City and New York.

In July, 1978, Acapulco and Aeroméxico join again in one it hobbles only in order that the name of Mexico comes to the whole world, since the bay and beaches of the port are sedate of the final of the Contest Miss Universe and the airline takes charge moving to the competitors as the official carrier of the event. Nowadays, Acapulco continues being an icon that recounts to our country in the mind of the travelers in the world, contacting with the whole world for the airway. The relation between Aeroméxico and Acapulco remains in force nowadays, and for 54 years, Aircraft of Mexico it has supported an uninterrupted shuttle service between this beautiful port and the Mexico City.