I’m attempting to book award travel into Merida, Mexico (MID). No availability on CO through Houston, so I’m looking at AeroMexico through Mexico City. The flight I have on hold has a 1 hour connection in MEX with the connection departing at 2:20pm. Apparently 1 hour in MEX is a legal connection between AeroMexico flights. I can also fly CO to MEX and then switch to AeroMexico and get an extra 15 minutes, but then I’d be changing airlines in MEX.

I assume I will need to clear immigration and customs in MEX before catching my connecting flight to Merida. Does anyone have any thought on the practicality of going with a 1 hour connection? Or the 75 minute CO to AM connection?

Also:

• I will not have any checked baggage.
• The AeroMexico website shows another MEX to MID flight at 5:20pm which would be a 4 hour connection. CO did not give me that as an option however.