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Coming this August (or September), Mexico’s Viva Aerobus will begin offering daily flights from Gary, Indiana to Monterrey, Mexico (Gary is considered a “Chicago” airport, since it’s just 35-minutes from downtown Chicago). The point is to take advantage of the big Hispanic population in Chicago (Hispanics made up 26% of the city’s population when they last took the census in 2000). In the meantime, the Gary airport is going to have to get busy, and fast. Keep reading, and I’ll tell you what they have to do, and what it’ll cost. |
To accommodate Viva Aerobus, Gary is going to have to shell out about $3.5 million, to build a customs office for the flights.
But at least business is picking up in Gary. Since May, the airport hadn’t had any daily passenger flights (because of the demise of SkyValue); but now (starting this week), Skybus has daily flights to Gary from Greensboro, North Carolina…and now, Viva Aerobus will begin its daily flights this summer.
Oh, and here’s a good “did you know?” about Viva Aerobus: it’s partly owned by the family that founded Ireland’s Ryanair.
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