On a winter evening at the Ciudad Juárez golf club on the US-Mexican border, the champagne corks are popping. At a gathering of travel agents and business executives Mexican airline start-up Lineas Aereas Azteca is celebrating the opening of its route to the northern Mexican city and the unveiling of its fourth aircraft, a Boeing 737-700.
The scene is so lavish you would not know the Mexican airline industry is facing its worst crisis in years or that the Mexican economy is in recession.
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