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Searching for flights around federal holidays, noticed these 1-stop flights on aeromexico. Departing DFW 2/8 through 2/15, roundtrip, for $334. I was looking for 2/14-2/21 when this popped up.

Looks like a 6 to 8 hour layover in mexico City

I actually found in on Cheaptickets.com and Expedia. $333.33 can fly in Jan 26-29 th and return on 2/3 or 2/4. the only problems is the long layover in Mexico city going back.

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Yeah, that's because they want to cavity search every person that passes through their airport.

Is everyone aware that this airport their immigration dept makes you fill out immigration forms, claim your luggage, pass through their immigration, then recheck luggage and pass back through security? It's a pain in the ass. You definitely need 2-3 hours to be safe. On the way back from SJO>LAX it took quite a bit of time for our luggage to come out and an announcement did say that it can take up to an hour.... probably took 30 minutes.

I would say be careful what you have in your suitcase because it appears bags are machine scanned when they come off planes, then machine scanned again when you pass through security before rechecking- at this point you also press a red button and if the light comes on your bags are searched by agents(happened to me on way in)- and after you recheck your bags you are scanned again US TSA style when you pass back into the gate area with your carry on luggage.

Oddly, on the way to SJO my passport was stamped, my luggage searched because I pressed the button and hit the jackpot, then dumped out into the pre-security terminal where I could have walked outside and essentially proceeded to tour Mexico City if I felt like it. If I were traveling light and had the time I guess there was nothing stopping me from taking a cab tour around the city. But the procedure at that point is to proceed to the AeroMex ticket counter, give them my luggage and head back through security to my gate. On the flight back to LAX they didn't stamp my passport and I didn't have to leave the inner terminal to recheck my bag- though it was still rescanned- and after handing it off to a guy waiting by a carousel for connecting luggage I took an escalator up to the main terminal, still having to pass through a TSA style security checkpoint.

It is an easy enough airport to navigate because it's quite small. There are no drinking fountains so unless you enjoy paying for bottled water drink up before arriving. Their restaurants do take US dollars fwiw and some pretty good food. I had a decent pizza at one restaurant for $12. There are also many charging stations for electronics.

From searching enough for flights LAX>SJO I guess I would say the tradeoff is usually more time RT on AeroMex but often drastically reduced ticket price. I booked my flight barely a week in advance for $340 RT. If you asked me was it worth saving a couple hundred dollars or more I would say yes. It all depends on your perspective there. My layovers were not that long, I think 4 hours max on the way to SJO, about 2.5 hours on the way back.

I guess Mexico wants to present the image they are really hard on illegal immigration and drug smuggling? I really don't know. Maybe they should just manage their own borders and population instead of trying to buttscrew the people making connecting flights through their airport.