Viva announces MTY-NYC direct flight ahead of the World Cup

Viva has announced a caller nonstop way betwixt Monterrey (MTY) and New York (JFK), marking a “turning point” successful aerial connectivity betwixt bluish Mexico and the United States.

After the 4 play flights statesman operations connected Dec. 13, the way volition beryllium paused starting successful mid-January 2026 and past resume permanently starting successful the summer. 

Viva serves 45 nationalist and planetary destinations, but New York has not regularly been 1 of them. Starting this December, it volition be. (File Photo)

“The way marks a turning constituent successful connectivity successful Monterrey,” General Director and CEO of Grupo Viva Aerobus Juan Carlos Zuazua said. 

He added that Monterrey residents’ prime of beingness has improved acknowledgment to the airline’s continuous launching of caller home and planetary routes that let travelers “to spell connected vacation, observe caller destinations and spot household and friends.” Viva serves 45 nationalist and planetary destinations, though the caller way volition beryllium its archetypal connecting Monterrey with New York connected a regular basis.  

“What amended mode to proceed expanding this connectivity than with the caller Monterrey-New York route?” Zuazua said. 

While prices are expected to beryllium competitive, the Dec-Jan rollout of the caller way is aimed astatine concern travelers and tourists looking to instrumentality vantage of the Christmas play successful New York. The commencement of the imperishable signifier of the way is timed to facilitate entree to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Matches are scheduled successful Monterrey betwixt June 14 and June 29,  and successful the New York/New Jersey country from June 13 to July 19.

“Each caller way is simply a nonstop gateway to the world,” authorities Tourism Minister Maricarmen Martínez Villareal said. “For Nuevo León [Monterrey’s state], it means much visitors, much concern opportunities, and much jobs. This confederation prepares america with a imaginativeness for the 2026 World Cup.”

The archetypal signifier of summons income to World Cup matches began connected Wednesday greeting and volition past done September 19. Visa cardholders implicit the property of 18 are eligible to registry present successful bid to acquisition tickets later. The outgo for radical signifier matches is US $60 (115.30 pesos, taxable to alteration per the speech rate), according to FIFA.

With reports from El Economista and Milenio