Aeroenlaces Nacionales S.A. de C.V., trading as Viva (formerly Viva Aerobus), is a major mexican low-cost airline headquartered at Monterrey International Airport, in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
Measured by passenger numbers, it is Mexico´s third-largest airline and eleventh-largest airline in North America, offering more than 160 routes in more than 50 destinations serving Mexico, the United States, Central and South America.
Viva operates mostly within a combination of point-to-point system with direct flights between middle-size airports and a hubsystem. Monterrey International Airport serves as its largest hub in terms of passengers carried and the number of departures. Cancun, Guadalajara, Mexico City-Benito Juarez, Los Cabos, Merida, Mexico City-Felipe Angeles and Tijuana serve as operating bases.
Viva is fully owned by the largest bus company group in Mexico, IAMSA, and was co-founded by and invested in by Irelandia Aviation.
As of November 9th, 2024, Viva has an all-Airbus fleet consisting of:
x49 Airbus A320-232
In which 22 of these are wet leased to European lease carrier “Avión Express”. These A320s are equipped with IAE V2527E-A5 engines and a cabin layout consisted of 180 seats.
x22 Airbus A320-271NEO
Equipped with PW1127G-JM engines and a cabin layout consisted of 186 seats.
x10 Airbus A321-231
Equipped with IAE V2533-A5 engines and a cabin layout consisted of 220 seats.
Note: None of these were ordered directly to Airbus, instead, the airline acquired them in the beginning of the 2020s after couple years of previous use.
x30 Airbus A321-271NEO
Equipped with PW1133G-JM engines and a cabin layout consisted of 240 seats.
In the airline’s beginnings, against all odds, the airline started with an all Boeing fleet consisted of x25 Boeing B737-3 equipped with CFM56-3B1 engines and featuring an all economy cabin layout with 145 seats. All these planes were gradually phased out, being replaced by modern and fuel efficient Airbus A320 Family equipments, a project that was completed the 26th of July back in 2018, when XA-VIX, the airline’s last B737-3B7 made its last commercial flight.
Colombia
- Bogotá El Dorado
Cuba
- Camagüey
- Havana
- Holguín
- Santiago De Cuba
- Santa Clara
Mexico
- Acapulco
- Cancun
- Chetumal
- Chihuahua
- Ciudad Juárez
- Ciudad Obregón
- Cozumel
- Culiacán
- Durango
- Guadalajara HUB
- Hermosillo
- Huatulco
- Ixtapa
- La Paz
- Leon/El Bajio
- Los Mochis
- Matamoros
- Mazatlán
- Mérida HUB
- Mexicali
- Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX) HUB
- Mexico City Felipe Angeles (NLU) HUB
- Monterrey MAIN HUB
- Morelia
- Nuevo Laredo
- Oaxaca
- Puebla
- Puerto Escondido
- Puerto Vallarta
- Querétaro
- Reynosa
- San Jose Del Cabo HUB
- San Luis Potosí
- Tampico
- Tapachula
- Tijuana HUB
- Torreón
- Tulum
- Tuxtla Gutiérrez
- Veracruz
- Villahermosa
- Zacatecas
United States
- Austin
- Cincinnati
- Dallas Fort Worth
- Denver
- Houston George Bush
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- New York John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Newark
- Oakland
- Orlando
- San Antonio
At the moment, we dispose of a very modest representation of Mexican carriers in the flight sim, and for that, and of course adding that Viva is an extremely important airline in the country with expanding horizons, is why I consider it a must to have this one on the sim, showing Infinite Flight’s commitment to involve modern aviation to its fleet.
