On Thursday, American Airlines (AA) announced it would introduce a new route to Mexico starting next year’s first quarter. The flights will be operated by Envoy Air under the American Eagle regional brand using the Embraer E170. Bookings will open on Monday.
Dallas to Tampico
According to WFAA, 
American Airlines
will start flying directly to Tampico International Airport (TAM), Mexico, from its main hub in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
(DFW) on March 5th, 2025. Tickets for the flight will be available starting September 16th this year.
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According to Flight Aware, Viva Aerobus, American, 
United Airlines
, and Mesa Airlines have flights from DFW to TAM. However, none of these flights are direct; they all have a stopover. The US carriers transit through Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport
, and Viva Aerobus stops at Monterrey International Airport (MTY).
Jim Moses, American Airlines’ Senior Vice President of DFW Operations, said in a statement:
“We’re excited to continue expanding our network of more than 230 worldwide destinations we serve directly from DFW. American is proud to operate as the largest U.S. airline in Mexico and to give our customers this direct access to family, business, and leisure destinations across the country.”
Tampico will become American’s 29th destination in Mexico, making it the US carrier with the most flights and destinations. According to the carrier, the destination will add more flights to the existing “815 weekly flights to the country next year.”
As mentioned, Envoy will operate the flight under the American Eagle banner using the Embraer E170 regional jet, which can carry up to 65 passengers.
About the airline’s route network
Currently, American Airlines (including American Eagle) flies to 30 destinations in Mexico, they are as follows:
- Acapulco
- Aguascalientes
- Cabo San Lucas
- Cancun
- Chihuahua
- Cozumel
- Durango
- Guadalajara
- Hermosillo
- Huatulco
- Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo
- La Paz
- Leon
- Loreto
- Manzanillo
- Mazatlan
- Mérida
- Mexico City
- Monterrey
- Morelia
- Oaxaca
- Puerto Vallarta
- Queretaro
- San Luis Potosi
- Tampico
- Tijuana
- Torreon
- Tulum
- Veracruz
- Zacatecas
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The airline’s addition of Tampico will make the total number of destinations 31. It added two other Mexican destinations earlier in the year: Tulum and Veracruz.
Mexico is a large leisure market for US airlines. According to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company, AA operated 63,268 flights back and forth between Mexico in 2023, averaging 1,216 weekly flights. At the end of the year, the airline had ferried 9.74 million passengers between Mexico and the US, flying over 10.11 billion available seat miles (ASMs).
Envoy’s E170
As mentioned above, Envoy will operate the flights from DFW to TAM using its Embraer E170. Envoy Air is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Airlines Group and utilizes its fleet of smaller regional jets to feed into American’s main hubs.
The aircraft is configured with six first class reclining seats, 16 economy plus, and 48 standard seats. The economy plus seats are the same as standard economy but have three extra inches of legroom.