A Conversation With Volaris' Holger Blankenstein

A Conversation With Volaris' Holger Blankenstein

November 2019
Madhu Unnikrishnan

Issue Overview

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.