> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.lacaribenanews.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Aeroméxico Will Fly to Jamaica and The Bahamas. Guyanese Still Need a Visa for Mexico. - URL: https://www.lacaribenanews.com/aeromexico-montego-bay-nassau-routes-guyana-mexico-visa-2026/ - Published: 2026-09-22T11:47:42.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-22T11:47:44.000Z - Description: Aeroméxico will fly Mexico City to Montego Bay and Nassau from March 2027. Jamaicans and Bahamians enter Mexico without a visa; Guyanese and Mexicans need visas for each other's countries. What it would take to change that, and what the research says. - Author: Theon Alleyne - Tags: Business, Guyana, Travel, CELAC **Quick summary:** Aeroméxico will fly nonstop from Mexico City to Montego Bay from 18 March 2027 and to Nassau from 19 March, three times a week each, subject to government approval. Jamaicans and Bahamians enter Mexico without a visa. Guyanese need one, unless they hold a valid US visa, and Mexicans with ordinary passports need a visa for Guyana. By LCN Business Desk Aeroméxico will open the first nonstop flights from Mexico to Jamaica and The Bahamas in March 2027, the airline said in a statement on Monday, 21 September, reported by [A21](https://a21.com.mx/aerolineas/2026/09/22/anuncia-aeromexico-rutas-a-bahamas-y-jamaica-en-2027/?ref=lacaribenanews.com) and [El Universal](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cartera/aeromexico-abre-nuevas-rutas-hacia-jamaica-y-bahamas-iniciaran-operaciones-en-semana-santa/?ref=lacaribenanews.com). Service from Mexico City to Montego Bay starts on 18 March 2027 on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, leaving at 09:20 and landing at 14:00 local time. Service to Nassau starts on 19 March on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, leaving at 09:10 and landing at 15:00\. Both routes are subject to government approval, and tickets are already on sale. Both will use Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with 166 seats, 16 of them in the Premium cabin, which gives 498 seats a week in each direction on each route, A21 reported. "The addition of Jamaica and The Bahamas to our Caribbean route network reflects our commitment to offering our customers more travel options," said Giancarlo Mulinelli, Aeroméxico's Senior Vice President of Global Sales. ## Where does Aeroméxico already fly in the Caribbean? Punta Cana and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, and Havana. With Montego Bay and Nassau, the airline says it will offer more than 4,000 weekly seats to the Caribbean on 27 weekly frequencies for Holy Week 2027\. Nassau will be sold mainly for connections from Monterrey, Guadalajara and Cancún, with Brazil, Argentina and Chile connecting in one direction at first. The Nassau route came with numbers. FM Traffic data for the 12 months to April 2026 put demand between Mexico and Nassau at 23 passengers a day in each direction, level with Brazil and behind only Panama, which has direct flights, at 31, A21 reported. Mexico produced 9,826 arrivals in Nassau and Paradise Island across 2024 and 2025, second in Latin America after Brazil. "Latin American demand is already exceeding the seat capacity available on nonstop flights to Nassau," said Joy Jibrilu, chief executive of the Nassau & Paradise Island Promotion Board, who also noted that Latin American citizens do not need a visa to enter The Bahamas. ## Which CARICOM citizens need a visa for Mexico? Nine of the 14 independent member states. Mexico's Foreign Ministry list of visa rules by nationality for ordinary passports, [published in May 2024](https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/914922/Mayo%5F2024.pdf?ref=lacaribenanews.com), exempts five and requires a visa from the rest: | CARICOM member | Visa for Mexico (ordinary passport) | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | | Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago | Not required | | Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname | Required | | Guyana | Required | Source: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Régimen consular por nacionalidad, May 2024\. Montserrat, a British territory, is not listed separately. Mexico's National Institute of Migration lists Guyana among the countries that require a visa. Both countries on Aeroméxico's new routes are on the exempt side. So is Barbados. Barbadian and Bahamian passports open far more of the world than Guyana's, La Caribeña News reported in [How Guyana's Oil Boom Is Rewriting Its Passport](https://www.lacaribenanews.com/guyana-passport-visa-free-countries-2026/). ## What are the visa rules between Mexico and Guyana? Guyanese with ordinary passports need a visa for Mexico, the Embassy of Mexico in Georgetown states in its [published requirements](https://embamex.sre.gob.mx/guyana/images/pdf/visarequirements.pdf?ref=lacaribenanews.com): a passport valid for six months, an employment letter, three months of bank and card statements, a photograph, a confirmed itinerary and hotel booking, and a consular fee of US$36\. "Holders of a valid US visa do not require a Mexican Visa," it says. Mexico's consulates give the wider rule: travellers holding a valid resident card or multiple-entry visa from the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom or the Schengen Area are eligible to enter without a Mexican visa, according to the [Consulate of Mexico in Denver](https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/denver/images/2025/VISAREQUIREMENTS2025.pdf?ref=lacaribenanews.com). Mexicans with ordinary passports need a visa for Guyana. Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs [list of nationals who need no visa](https://www.minfor.gov.gy/visa-information?ref=lacaribenanews.com) includes Mexico only for diplomatic, official and service passports, for 90 days. Guyana's consulate in Trinidad and Tobago [also lists](https://guyanahctrinidad.mission.gov.gy/visa-application-advisory/?ref=lacaribenanews.com) Mexicans holding a US permanent resident card or a valid US, Canadian or Schengen visa for 90 days; that wording does not appear against Mexico on the ministry's list, which gives it for Guatemala. Everyone else must obtain a visa before travelling. Travel data held by La Caribeña News, drawn from three independent passport datasets and checked in July 2026, records Mexico as requiring an embassy visa for Guyanese, with all three sources in agreement. Today a traveller between the two capitals connects through Panama on Copa Airlines, which flies to Georgetown and on to Mexico. ## LCN analysis: what would it take for Aeroméxico to fly to Georgetown? Distance is not the obstacle. Mexico City to Cheddi Jagan International is about 4,640 kilometres by the shortest route, roughly twice the 2,230 kilometres to Montego Bay, and inside the range of up to 6,480 kilometres Boeing [publishes](https://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max?ref=lacaribenanews.com) for the 737 MAX 8, the aircraft Aeroméxico has chosen for the new routes. The Nassau announcement shows what an airline and a destination put forward when they open a route. They had a measured demand figure for passengers between the two countries. They had arrival numbers from the Mexican market. And they had a tourism board that could tell buyers no visa was needed. For Mexico and Guyana, La Caribeña News found no published figure for daily passenger demand between the two countries. Ordinary passport holders need a visa in both directions. And every Nassau-style route needs government approval at each end. The first of those gaps can be filled with data Guyana's tourism and aviation authorities already collect on arrivals by nationality and routing. The second is a policy choice, and both governments hold it. ## LCN analysis: what would it take to lift the visa requirement? Mexico's own record shows how it decides. It already accepts a US, Canadian, Japanese, British or Schengen visa in place of its own, so a Guyanese traveller who has passed one of those checks can enter. When Mexico reimposed visas on Peruvians in 2024, after doing the same to Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Brazilians, its Foreign Ministry cited "a substantial increase" of visitors entering "to carry out activities different from those permitted" to a visitor, and travellers whose profile "does not fit that of a genuine visitor or tourist", [CNN Español](https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2024/04/09/por-que-decidio-mexico-reimponer-visa-a-peruanos-las-cifras-orix?ref=lacaribenanews.com) reported. The test Mexico applies is what its own border officers see. Guyana has negotiated its way off visa lists before. The United Kingdom lifted its visa requirement for Guyanese in November 2022, and Guyana and the United Arab Emirates signed a mutual visa exemption memorandum in September 2024, La Caribeña News reported in its passport coverage. Guyana also admits ordinary passport holders from Latin American countries including Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama and Peru for up to 90 days, according to the ministry list, so a Latin American exemption would not be a first. What Guyana has not had, La Caribeña News reported in [An Open Economy, A Closed Door](https://www.lacaribenanews.com/guyana-open-economy-visa-exclusion-2026/), is reciprocity from most of the countries it admits freely. A route to lifting the requirement would run through a bilateral visa exemption agreement, the instrument Guyana used with the UAE, with Guyana's documents, overstay record and returns cooperation as the evidence Mexico would weigh, and a matching exemption for Mexicans at Georgetown. ## Does visa-free travel grow economies? The research says visa requirements cost trade, investment and visitors. Across country pairs worldwide, a visa requirement reduced travel between them by between 52 and 63 per cent, Eric Neumayer of the London School of Economics found in [a 2010 study](http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28351/?ref=lacaribenanews.com) in The Professional Geographer. A [2011 study](http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/37226/?ref=lacaribenanews.com) in Applied Geography estimated that a one-sided visa requirement lowers bilateral trade by up to 19 per cent and foreign direct investment by up to 25 per cent, and that when both countries require visas the effect on trade rises to up to 25 per cent. A later study using data for up to 194 destination and 214 origin countries from 1995 to 2013 found smaller effects than the earlier work but the same direction. Introducing a visa requirement cut tourism from the affected country by more than 20 per cent, and removing one raised tourist flows to high-income destinations by about 26 per cent, Mathias Czaika, then at Oxford, and Neumayer reported in [Applied Geography](http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/74060/?ref=lacaribenanews.com) in 2017\. Removing a visa requirement in a low-income country raised investment from the newly exempt country by an average of 29 per cent, they found. Governments have acted on this. A study by the World Tourism Organization and the World Travel & Tourism Council, presented to G20 tourism ministers in Mérida, Mexico, in 2012, estimated that improving visa processes could add 122 million international tourists, US$206 billion in tourism exports and more than five million jobs across the G20 by 2015, the [UNWTO said](https://www.unwto.org/archive/global/press-release/2012-06-18/unwto-and-wttc-call-g20-use-tourisms-potential-job-creation?ref=lacaribenanews.com). For a Caribbean business traveller the cost starts before any flight is booked, as La Caribeña News reported in [A US Business Visa Costs a Caribbean Exporter US$185 Before Travel](https://www.lacaribenanews.com/a-us-business-visa-costs-a-caribbean-exporter-us-185-before-travel-for-four-states-it-costs-us-15-185/). ## Where does Guyana's tourism push fit? Caribbean tourism leaders meet in Georgetown from 5 October for the State of the Industry Conference, as La Caribeña News reported in [Cuba Lost Two Thirds of Its Visitors](https://www.lacaribenanews.com/cuba-tourism-collapse-us-sanctions-sotic-georgetown-2026/), and regional tourism boards are courting Guyanese travellers, as Grenada did in April, reported in [Grenada Tourism Authority Seeks Business From Guyana's Expanding Travel Market](https://www.lacaribenanews.com/grenada-tourism-authority-seeks-business-from-guyanas-expanding-travel-market/). Free movement inside CARICOM itself remains unfinished, La Caribeña News reported in [CARICOM at 53](https://www.lacaribenanews.com/caribbean-community-at-53-2026/), and Haitians face the tightest limits, reported in [CARICOM Trade With Haiti](https://www.lacaribenanews.com/haiti-caricom-trade-2026/). From March, a family in Mexico City can fly to Montego Bay in three hours and forty minutes without a visa. To Georgetown, they still need a visa, and a connection through Panama. ### What the title card shows - **18 and 19 March 2027:** start dates of Aeroméxico's Mexico City to Montego Bay and Nassau routes, three flights a week each, subject to government approval. Source: A21, El Universal. - **5 of 14:** independent CARICOM states whose citizens enter Mexico without a visa: The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Guyana is among the nine that need one. Source: Mexican Foreign Ministry. - **US$36:** Mexico's consular visa fee in Georgetown, waived for Guyanese holding a valid US visa. Source: Embassy of Mexico in Guyana. - **4,640 km:** Mexico City to Cheddi Jagan International, within the 737 MAX 8's published range. Source: La Caribeña News calculation; Boeing. - **Up to 25 per cent:** reduction in bilateral trade when both countries require visas of each other. Source: Neumayer, Applied Geography, 2011. ## Frequently Asked Questions Does Aeroméxico fly to Jamaica and The Bahamas? From March 2027, subject to government approval. Mexico City to Montego Bay starts on 18 March 2027 and Mexico City to Nassau on 19 March, three flights a week each on Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Do Guyanese need a visa for Mexico? Yes, with ordinary passports. Guyanese holding a valid US visa do not need a Mexican visa, the Embassy of Mexico in Georgetown says, and travellers with a valid resident card or multiple-entry visa from Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom or the Schengen Area are also eligible to enter without one, according to Mexico's consulates. Do Mexicans need a visa for Guyana? Yes, with ordinary passports. Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs exempts only Mexican diplomatic, official and service passport holders, for 90 days. Others must obtain a visa before travelling. Which Caribbean countries can Mexicans and Caribbean nationals visit without visas? Mexico exempts ordinary passport holders from The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. It requires visas from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname. Does removing visa requirements increase tourism? Research says it does. Czaika and Neumayer (2017) found that removing a visa requirement raised tourist flows to high-income destinations by about 26 per cent, and that introducing one cut tourism by more than 20 per cent.