Like Continental, the biggest U.S. carrier to Mexico, other U.S. airlines have cut capacity to the country in the wake of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak.
Starting Monday, Continental cut the number of seats on Mexico flights in half. for the month of May. Reductions are being implemented by using smaller aircraft on flights to Mexico or by reducing the frequency of flights to any one destination, said Continental.
US Airways is reducing May and June departures to Mexico by 38 percent, beginning May 10.
Delta is trimming an undisclosed percentage of its 350 weekly flights to Mexico but will retain service to all 11 of its destinations.
United Airlines will slash its weekly flights to Mexico from 61 to 24 in May, beginning Tuesday. Its June schedule will drop from 90 weekly flights to 52.
American has not cut any flights, as of Monday.
Alaska Airlines is pulling pillows and blankets from their Mexico City flights.
Elsewhere in the world, Argentina indefinitely extended its ban on incoming flights from Mexico. The country originally suspended all Mexico flights through May 4. There are no suspected cases of H1N1 in Argentina.
Chinese mainland authorities banned all direct flights from Mexico and decided to send a plane to pick up Chinese tourists stranded there because of the ban, according to the Xinhua news agency.
The decision came after a Mexican traveler in Hong Kong was confirmed to be infected with the virus. He had traveled to Shanghai on a flight from Mexico City last Thursday and then on to Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong hotel where the man was staying, the Metropark, was quarantined.