{"id":374445,"date":"2026-02-23T17:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cartel-chaos-airlines-cancel-flights-mexico\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:12:26","slug":"cartel-chaos-airlines-cancel-flights-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=374445","title":{"rendered":"Cartel Chaos: Airlines Cancel Flights To Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major international airlines operating flights to and from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"32463\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mexico\/\"  >Mexico<\/a><\/span> have halted services this Sunday, February 22, after reports of the infamous &#8216;El Mencho&#8217; cartel leader being killed by the Mexican Army. This saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" >US State Department<\/a> issue a <a href=\"https:\/\/mx.usembassy.gov\/security-alert-update-ongoing-security-operations-u-s-mission-mexico-february-22-2026\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >travel warning<\/a> for cities across Mexico, including Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cartel clashes escalate in Mexico, airlines issue travel warnings and suspend services, leaving tourists stranded and fearing for their safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,5953,7620,16569,664,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airport-closed","category-flights-cancelled","category-manufacturers","category-mexico","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374446,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374445\/revisions\/374446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}