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At the end of World War I, the pilots who flew at the time began to search for jobs related with their experience acquired during this war, some of them work as “stunt flyers” at air circus, some time later, the air mail started operating as a quick and safe way to deliver documents and thus provided employment to hundreds of pilots in several countries; Mexico being close to the United States was part of this development.
With the refining and export of oil products, Tampico reached a level of high economic importance in Mexico; this required an efficient and fast method to deliver documents and people between this City and Mexico City. For this reason in 1921 the Commercial flights in Mexico and in North America started operating thanks to Mr. Harry J. Lawson, Lloyd A. Winship and the pilot Elmer Ed Hammond, all of them U.S. citizens residing in Tampico decided to get together and founded a commercial freight airline to cover the route between Tampico and Mexico City, in partnership with the Lincoln Standard company, maker of airplanes, and thus the Compañía Mexicana de Transportación Aérea was incorporated. The first test flight was done on January 1st, 1921 and took two hours, forty-five minutes aboard a Lincoln Standard piloted by Jorge Puflea. On July 12, same year, they obtained the charter to operate the service of freight and airmail for 10 years.
The first commercial flight was done when the pilot, C.V. Pickup and his passenger, Humberto Jiménez departed on August 30th, 1921 at 7:05 AM from Mexico City to Tampico. Aboard the plane there was a sack containing the first mail pouch for its correspond ring delivery in Tampico and Tuxpam. This was the first airmail delivery in North America. Also included there were several newspapers to be sold at the same time of its publishing date. The high cost of operation forced the company to stop servicing chartered routes to start flights on contract only, in particular in the region of Tampico, being one of those contract what gave a new push to the company when the American George L. Rhil utilized the air transport services to provide for the payroll to the employees of the oil workers, signing an agreement that gave great advantages to both parties. .
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In August 2001, the commercial airline in Mexico commemorated 80 years of life, being this an excuse to celebrate it in Tampico that was the birthplace of this important event.
