Mexico City - During a press conference given on Tuesday outside his campaign headquarters in Colonia Roma, President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that he'll be taking a commercial flight to Puerto Vallarta to attend the Pacific Alliance Summit, to which he was invited by President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Throughout his pre-election campaign AMLO maintained that he would not utilize the presidential plane because it would be an insult to the Mexican people due to its high operational costs. "I will travel from Mexico City to Puerto Vallarta on a commercial airline and I will stay at the meeting's host hotel..." he said.

While in Puerto Vallarta, the morenista will also hold a meeting with Michel Temer, president of Brazil, within the framework of the Mercosur-Pacific Alliance Summit.

The XIII Summit of the Pacific Alliance will be held on July 24 and 25 in Puerto Vallarta, where the leaders of Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru will meet with their counterparts from Mercosur, a bloc composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

The Pacific Alliance is an economic and development initiative among four nations of Latin America: Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, which seeks to find a space to promote greater growth and greater competitiveness of the four economies that comprise it.