Mexicana Airlines and Bank of America today announced consumers can earn a coupon for a free companion ticket after their first purchase and receive a $99 companion ticket coupon annually after that with the new Mexicana Airlines Visa Platinum credit card.
This is the first airline card to offer this type of reward and the first Mexicana Airlines card in the United States. To redeem their companion ticket coupon, customers will simply provide the coupon number via phone to Mexicana Airlines.


The card is available nationwide, including the 13 U.S. cities where Mexicana flies -- Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Oakland, Portland, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose and, beginning July 1, Dallas.
With 76 years of experience flying from Mexico to the United States, Mexicana stands out for offering services and products focused on the Hispanic passenger. Mexicana is currently the international airline transporting the most number of passengers between the two countries.

"We want to help our customers earn free travel rewards as quickly as possible so they can look forward to spending more time with their loved ones in Mexico, or just take that much needed vacation," said Jose Ruiz, senior vice president at Bank of America. "This credit card helps our Hispanic customers benefit from their day to day purchases, while enjoying the convenience that the Mexicana Airline Visa Platinum credit card offers."


"Both Mexicana Airlines and Bank of America share a strong commitment to the Hispanic community," said Sergio Allard, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Mexicana Airlines. "We are pleased to partner with one of the country's leading financial institutions to launch the Mexicana Airlines Visa Platinum, a card designed with our Hispanic customers in mind."

Bank of America is deeply committed to serving the Hispanic community and currently has relationships with 44 percent of Hispanic households in its coast-to-coast territory. In 2004, the bank opened more than 1 million checking accounts for Hispanic customers. Additionally, Bank of America is building half of its new banking centers in areas to serve Hispanic neighborhoods. The bank also is actively recruiting bilingual associates -- of all new hires in banking centers, nearly half are bilingual and 75 percent of those speak Spanish. Bank of America also provides Spanish information.
Other customer benefits include:
- One Frecuenta Mile for every $1 spent on net purchases

- Two Frecuenta Miles for every $1 in net purchases spent directly through Mexicana Airlines


- Travel accident insurance

- 2,000 anniversary bonus miles

- Bank of America Mini-Card, photo security and the Total Security Protection(R) (TSP) package, which helps protect against theft, loss, or unauthorized card use For more information.
About Bank of America

- Frecuenta Miles never expire and there are no annual mileage or redemption limits.

- Customers can redeem miles for airline tickets, Mexicana Vacation Packages or through Mexicana's more than 15 airline partners throughout the world


Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving 33 million consumer relationships with more than 5,800 retail banking offices, more than 16,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with more than 13 million active users. Bank of America is the No. 1 overall Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in the United States and the No. 1 SBA lender to minority-owned small businesses.
About Mexicana Airlines

Mexicana Airlines is Mexico's airline with the most extensive international coverage present in the US Market for the last 76 years. Their code share agreements with American Airlines, Lan Chile and Iberia, as well as the ones they maintain with important global airlines such as Lufthansa, Varig and Air Canada, among others, represent great benefits to their passengers in the accrual and redemption of miles, access to Executive Lounges, wider connection possibilities and coordinated schedules with an extensive routes network. Mexicana has one of the highest levels of punctuality in the world. Their fleet is considered one of the most modern in the world and form their operations hub in Mexico City's International Airport, Mexicana Flies to more than 50 destinations in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Mexicana's Maintenance Base is the first and the best facility in Latin America and one of the best in the world. Mexicana was awarded as the Best Airline in Latin America for the seventh year in a row with the World Travel Award.