Archive for 'News Flash'

JetBlue Adds 17th Destination From Orlando: Nonstop Service to Cancun Begins in March

Posted 13 January 2008 | By | Categories: News Flash, Travel | No Comments

By MP News Staff Muy Caliente Fares Start At Just US$49(a) Each Way! More International Destinations Planned for Orlando ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 10, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq:JBLU) will add its 17th nonstop destination from Orlando International Airport with the launch of daily nonstop service to Cancun, Mexico on March 13, 2008*. The [...]

NAFTA Import Barriers Expire…Another Log on the Immigration Fire

Posted 08 January 2008 | By | Categories: News and Current Events, News Flash, Politics and Views | No Comments

By: MP News Staff As of January 1, 2008, the 15-year import protection plan put in place by NAFTA is expired. When the North American Free Trade Agreement was negotiated in 1993, Mexico’s ancestral crops of corn, beans sugar and milk were granted special protection. This protection clause was put in place to prepare Mexico [...]

Mexican Truckers Planning to Block the Border

Posted 20 December 2007 | By | Categories: News and Current Events, News Flash | 1 Comment

By: MP News Staff (From Landline Magazine) The long list of opponents to the cross-border trucking program isn’t exclusively made up of groups and truckers in the United States. Motor carriers in Mexico are waging their own fight to shut down the program. In fact, the Mexican National Truck Drivers Federation is planning to block the [...]

Horizon Air Announces New Service Between Los Angeles and Loreto

Posted 18 December 2007 | By | Categories: Hot Travel Deals, News Flash, Travel, Travel Agent Corner | No Comments

By: MP News Staff  SEATTLE (TVLW) – Horizon Air, Alaska Airlines’ sister carrier, today announced it will offer weekly nonstop jet service from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to the popular tourist destination of Loreto, Mexico, starting Jan. 19. The new flights are Horizon’s first to serve Mexico and will supplement Alaska Airlines’ LAX-Loreto service. [...]

Win A Cabo Vacation

Posted 10 December 2007 | By | Categories: News Flash, Travel | No Comments

 MP News Staff There are few places in Mexico, or anywhere else for that matter, quite as stunning as Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, hard against the cobalt blue water that is the incomparable Sea of Cortez. The once tiny fishing village is now a world-class resort destination that has retained its natural desert beauty while [...]

Rocky Point Questions

Posted 01 December 2007 | By | Categories: Living in Mexico, News and Current Events, News Flash, Politics and Views, Real Estate | 1 Comment

David Simmonds  There is a news report out about some investors losing their money in the area known as Rocky Point in Sonora, Mexico near Puerto Penasco. Whether this could have been avoided is arguable…or make that probable. Read the story and you get the sense that some of those who feel duped maybe didn’t thoroughly [...]

Travel Writer Workshop In D.F.

Posted 21 November 2007 | By | Categories: News Flash | No Comments

Press Release  LITERARY TRAVEL WRITING a special one-day writing workshop with C.M. MAYO January 19, 2008, 10 AM – 2 PM, Mexico City Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers, this [...]