Originally Posted by
ricktoronto
If it was changed it was changed before 2003 because since 2003 when I started flying to Central America, it's been that way. The reason is that MEX and other Mexican cities are not in Central America. Though all of Central America, Mexico, Canada and the USA and the Caribbean are in North America that isn't what AA uses to define access.
Wikipedia: "Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico."
But "Mexico is not in Central America" is not the reason. All the cities in Mexico
except MEX (Mexico City) are lumped in with Central America and Caribbean as ineligible.
And, anyway,
the UN considers Mexico part of Central America, for what that's worth.
