Issue Summary

Mexico's Volaris, an ultra-LCC owned by the Indigo Group, is growing. Fast. Next year, it plans to expand capacity by another 10%. But it's not the market's Aeromexicos or Interjets that Volaris sees as its main competitors. Instead, as Volaris Executive Vice President Holger Blankenstein explained to Skift Airline Weekly Editor Madhu Unnikrishnan in a recent conversation, Volaris wants to take market share from the long-distance bus industry.