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A passenger on a Volaris domestic flight Sunday morning tried to hijack the plane and have it take him to the United States. The 31-year-old man was traveling with his wife and two children. He attacked a flight attendant and attempted to force his way into the cockpit.
Spirit Airlines looked at telephone data and remittance data to get a sense for ties between the U.S. and a new city they might serve in Latin America. Volaris sent someone to a bus depot to count passengers.
Even by my standards Mexican low cost carrier Volaris has extreme chutzpah. Back in February they entered into a 12-month agreement to receive subsidies and fly twice-weekly between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico.
They started selling the flight. However last week the airline told the cities that unless they coughed up an additional $32,000 per roundtrip the service was off.
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