Air Travel To Oaxaca  (OAX), Flights to Oaxaca Mexico
Air Travel to
Oaxaca Mexico,
Saving Time and
Money
Mexico Airport Security:
Mexico follows similar security procedures published by the Transportation
Safety Authority.  See their helpful web page listing the latest security
procedures.  These tips can
save you time and money through security
check points.  Mexico City Airport might include a random hand inspection of
checked luggage
Try to save time and money on Air Travel by having the latest information on
transporting film, digital equipment, medicines,
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The Oaxaca  flight could  require three changes of planes (two stops)
you therefore should get an early flight and build in enough time between
planes to anticipate late arrivals and departures. Two hours between planes
gives  a comfort zone and allows for weather delays and other unexpected
delays.
check out the latest TSA tips regarding film and digital camera equipment
Air travel to Oaxaca Mexico: (OAX) Connections,  Save Time by making Realistic connections
When booking a flight to Oaxaca,  try to be realistic about your ability to get from one gate to another in time to
make a connection
especially on the flight to Oaxaca where you will  likely go through customs and
immigration in Mexico City.
International connections could require three hours for customs, immigration, and change of terminal from
domestic to International,
Once in the airport and making a connection to another flight, ask continually as you move through the airport
towards the gate.  The information that one person gives about a gate could change within an hour, especially in
Mexico City's airport.
The gate is not assigned until the airplane lands and pulls to the available gate.  
Air Travel to Oaxaca,
check the latest guides for
Mexican customs. If you bring two
laptops, for instance, you might be
asked to
pay duty on one of them.
Mexico has a tax on luxury items
Oaxaca has some interesting festival like Day of the Dead,
Christmas, Navidad,  and Semana Santa or Holy Week and Easter. These can be
busy times for Oaxaca and although festive and worth the trip, you need to make
reservations well ahead of these holidays.
Oaxaca's Silent vigil,
Semana Santa
Good Friday
Oaxaca's small but modern jet port is called Xoxocotlan  (OAX)    Taxi service is
plentiful, they are the less expensive shared taxis called
collectivos.  
At the airport in Oaxaca inspectors will run your
luggage through an xray when you arrive looking
for taxable items.  A second laptop for instance
could  cost you a duty payment.
Security: On trips to Oaxaca, security in Mexico City is apt to visually inspect luggage as well as x-ray.
To move quickly through security  try to wear no metal and this includes glasses, belts, shoes, coins,
and keys. These items will set off the alarm and subject you to delay and possible search. Put
everything of metal in your carry-on and pass it through the x-ray.
Digital Camera and Storage Media: A digital camera and its storage media can go through the x-ray but
should not go through the metal detector. The equipment should not go in checked luggage because it could
receive harsher treatment and a possible hand inspection. On Air travel through Mexico Laptops should go
outside of their case through the x-ray for carry-on luggage. Image tanks and remote hard drives will not be
harmed by the x-ray inspection.  Check this link to TSA for additional info for US travel:

Wear No Metal:
It speeds you through if you do not have any metal on your person when going through the check station
because if the inspectors do a body scan you will be separated from your carry-on luggage for a time and there
have been instances where, under the stressful conditions at the security checks, people have taken the wrong
luggage. (bags tend to look similar.)
Attaching a bright red card with your contact info on both your checked and on your carry-on luggage you can
distinguish your bags. Your hotel address in the country on a card within the bag and on the outside of the bag
may be an added safeguard.
Oaxaca Taxis
Once you reach Oaxaca's airport (OAX)
you will find shared taxis (vans) for an
inexpensive ride into the city. They will
drop you wherever you want to go within the
city
Oaxaca ATM s
Many ATMs are available that dispense the peso
at a fair rate of exchange. You can find a swipe
type at Banamex , one block east of the northeast
corner of the Zocalo, corner of Hidalgo and Lopez
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What To Wear in Oaxaca:
Oaxaca has an ideal temperature with warm days and cool nights. Men and women rarely wear shorts except
at the beach. In Oaxaca you can keep your wardrobe simple and base it on a few neutral colors like brown
and black. Formal events are rare but a suit jacket and a tie for the man and dress for the woman will cover
most formal events.
Black does not show wrinkles. Accessorize with colorful scarves.
Shopping for them in Oaxaca where
colorful shawls and scarves are made. It can be fun shopping in Oaxaca and it only takes three or four
scarves to add a different accent of color each day. Any color harmonizes with the basic brown, grey, or
black. A scarf can go around the neck, around the waist, or on the head and can add a lively accent to the
simple brown or black.
Men can stick to the basic black or brown also and bring a few colorful sweaters to accent. Oaxaca nights
can be cool in the winter, the city is at 5000 feet elevation.
Formal attire for a wedding or church service (necktie for the man, dress for the woman) would be handy but
for the most part,  casual clothing is the norm in Oaxaca.
Transfers to Oaxaca City:
Oaxaca city is about six miles from the airport  (OAX). Taxis are shared vans
into the city.  120 pesos or about  $10 USD.
Shop Early,
Compare Days
If you have flexibility,
compare the
difference in price on
different days of the
week.  You can often
save on the ticket price
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