Aerus (ZV, Monterrey Mariano Escobedo) has scheduled its international debut with daily flights to Brownsville, Texas set to begin on September 9, 2024.
Bookings for the flights will open on July 8. Earlier this year, the US Department of Transportation granted Aerus (legal name Aerotransportes Rafilher, S.A. de C.V.) authorisation to engage in scheduled and charter passenger operations between Mexico and the United States.
In its filing, Aerus told the DOT it wanted to serve the US with its fleet of Cessna (single turboprop) C208B Caravans on flights from Monterrey to Brownsville, Laredo, McAllen, and Corpus Christi International, and from Tampico to McAllen and Brownsville. No further official routes have been announced by Aerus at the moment.
Last year, the company’s chief executive officer, Javier Herrera García, told ch-aviation that Aerus’s base, the city of Monterrey, “has a lot of relationships with border towns in Texas. McAllen and Brownsville are the leisure cities for the wealthy people from Monterrey.” At the same time, Laredo is the largest land port in the world, and 40% of all commerce between both countries is transported through there.
Once it begins its flights, Aerus will become the fourth passenger Mexican carrier to operate scheduled services to the United States, taking over the place left by Aeromar Airlines, which went bankrupt in 2023.
ch-aviation has reached out to Aerus for comment.
