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M60_to_LGA
Mérida is a lovely city. But I doubt that's high on the list, especially from the West Coast. Tourists want Cancún, flights to CUN are generally cheaper, and if you really want to get to Mérida, you can take a bus from CUN and it's not that long of a ride.
Flying into CUN to get to MID is like flying into SBA to get to SAN, and then some. It’s five hours on the ADO bus and there’s a forced operational overnight both directions. I see LAX-MID as more like LAX-GDL than CUN in terms of traffic and broader OneWorld connectivity.
To the topic at hand, though, GUA strikes me as a somewhat similar play - I don’t think there’s a west coast nonstop on a OneWorld carrier. *A has UA and Avianca, Skyteam has DL. Maybe I’m seeing something that isn’t there, but it does fill an alliance partner gap.