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Aeromexico is relaunching direct flights from Calgary to Mexico City four times a week, starting Friday.

The seasonal service is currently scheduled until September, but airline officials hope flights will continue beyond that.

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Arik De, senior vice-president of revenue management, distribution and alliances at Aeromexico, said the airline has grown from offering four flights a week from Mexico City to Montreal to multiple daily flights connecting Mexico’s capital city and Canada.

While Aeromexico originally launched a direct flight from Calgary to Mexico City two years ago, De said the decision to pull back from the service related to constrained availability of flight slots out of the Mexico City airport.

“There’s a certain amount of slots that we can get and when we looked at our portfolio of flights, we just couldn’t allow that slot timing to be utilized,” De said Thursday. “But now that we have got the slots, it’s time to come back and try our luck.”