Hola! I hope you are doing fine. This time I want to tell you about this flight from last year. It is a domestic Mexican flight from the northwest state of Sonora. The day of the flight I took an Uber because it is difficult to get from downtown to the airport and vice versa by public transportation and I did not wanted to take any risk. I arrived at the airport and made a nicotine pause outside the building though the air was very warm from the dessert.
This is the main entrance that made me think that as far as I can tell this is the most stylish Mexican airport I have been to.
The cactus there gave a special desertic like feeling.
The AM counters. The check-in process was a breeze, the lady printing my BP was nice and cheerful when I asked her to change my seat to an empty row if possible to which she agreed.
After some time spent landside I made my way to the gate which was located upstairs and caught my attention this lounge.
Troughout the airport I saw AM publicity and not from other airlines.
The boarding was announced at gate 6 taking into consideration priorities and since I saw many people queuing I went to see some shops and restaurants just in front of these gates. The chairs were comfortable though.
Finally at my assigned seat and as usual with the legroom, no issue at all. I noticed the clean carpet in this "new" color and as you can see " a la low-cost" advertising. The seat pocket looked and felt worn and it contained the appropriate literature. And before I forget the seat is the same that you would find at the 787-8.
Once boarding was completed, the FA went trough the cabin offering headphones from a cool basket to the passengers.
We started to taxi…
And took off like a rocket. Turbulences on progress but apparently were not bothersome for some passengers.
When 10 000 ft were reached, the FA made an announcement regarding the use of electronic devices and instrumental music was played.
As you may know I use the IFE mostly to get the flight progress in the map and look, a new Mexican city was there: Guaynas :) (instead of Guaymas)
This is the AM in-flight literature:
the wifi leaflet
the Gran Plan leaflet
the safety card
the airsickness bag
and the collectible magazine.
At that moment from this fleet I have not flown in the 787-9 and the 737MAX but not interested at all in the latter.
We were flying over Chihuahua and Sinaloa.
And the cabin crew started the snack service…
While I enjoyed the view…
Thinking how big is Mexico and the long flights that should be operating which I think is quite fascinating and casually the IFE played the "Are you with me" song by Lost Frequencies, definitely a flight to remember.
The cart reached my row eventually.
And as usual I asked a beer, tomato juice and tequila "derecho" along with a bag of salty peanuts, salty, really salty.
When the serviced was over the FA dimmed the lights…
…so the cabin looked like this and finally I started to feel relaxed listening more music from the IFE.
After some time flying through complete darkness the descent was announced by the purser and these photos were shooted while arriving to the city.
When the aircraft landed a heavy rain was pouring so the aircraft moved from one to the other side of the runway and when we reached the platform the pilot (for the first time through the PA system) announced that due to the congestion we should wait 20 minutes in order to get a free gate so take this into consideration if you land at MEX to use the lavatories before the descent. We were arriving to the gate and still in movement inmediately some passengers got up to retrieve their belongings.
I exited the aircraft of course thanking the cabin crew for their good attitude and made my way to the metro in less than 10 minutes because I do not check baggage since 2015.
Thank you very much for reading this Flight Report, hope you enjoyed it.
I think it would be interesting to share this map located at every HMO entrance because I have not seen one similar in other Mexican airport.
Hola Jonathan!
Excelente reporte! Ni siquiera sabía que existía Hermosillo! lol
Muy bonito el frontis del aeropuerto, en realidad! Y se ve grande! Buena idea la de poner cactus si tienen relación con la flora del lugar!
Qué bien! No siempre te encuentras a alguien dispuesto a hacer algo así!
Espero que no sea alguna sucia estrategia para amargarle la existencia a las otras aerolíneas que operan en ese aeropuerto!!
Wow! Se ve muy espacioso!
Algunos pilotos parece que lo disfrutan!! Una vez pasé un susto por eso.
Mientras un milennial tenga un celular o una tablet, no le importa que el mundo les caiga encima, o que haya turbulencias. No se dan cuenta!
Qué agradable! Habitualmente es al revés: tocan música ambiental antes de despegar y después la apagan.
Nor am I! XD Menos mal que en mi país ninguna aerolínea los tiene!
Mi teoría es que las papilas gustativas de los mexicanos mueren a temprana edad. Y las que no mueren, se suicidan! lol Cómo soportan tanto picante, sal, y todo eso!!!
Lo tendré en cuenta. México está en mi bucket list.
Esto fue completamente nuevo para mí. Ni siquiera sabía lo que significaba háptico! Tuve que buscarlo en internet. :D Me parece una iniciativa muy interesante de parte del aeropuerto. Me pregunto cuán efectiva será. Podrá un ciego formarse una esquema mental del edificio a partir de ese mapa? Bueno, en todo caso me parece mucho mejor hacer el intento que no hacer nada, así que bien por el aeropuerto!!
I did! Gracias a ti por compartir. Que tengas un excelente 2021!