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  "response": {
    "Key": "US-GT",
    "orig": {
      "code": "US",
      "type": "country",
      "country": "United States"
    },
    "dest": {
      "code": "GT",
      "type": "country",
      "country": "Guatemala"
    },
    "faq": {
      "q0": {
        "question": "Which U.S. cities can I fly from to reach Guatemala?",
        "answer": "From the United States, you can fly nonstop to Guatemala City from major hubs including Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Atlanta, and Fort Lauderdale. One-stop connections are available from most other US cities via these airports, often through Miami or Houston. Travellers typically choose a departure airport based on proximity, fare differences, and flight frequency, with Miami and Houston offering the most daily departures."
      },
      "q1": {
        "question": "Which airports in Guatemala are the best to fly into?",
        "answer": "La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City is the primary gateway from the United States, with direct flights from many US cities. It is the hub for domestic travel, offering connections to Flores for Tikal and other regional airports. Mundo Maya International Airport in Flores receives some seasonal US flights and is ideal for visiting the Mayan ruins, but has limited onward connections."
      },
      "q2": {
        "question": "How long is the flight to Guatemala?",
        "answer": "From Houston or Miami to Guatemala City, non-stop flights typically last 2 hours 45 minutes to 3 hours 15 minutes. From Los Angeles via a one-stop connection in Mexico City or San Salvador, travel time usually runs 6 to 8 hours. Return flights are roughly similar in duration."
      },
      "q3": {
        "question": "Are there direct flights to Guatemala?",
        "answer": "Non-stop flights connect several U.S. cities to Guatemala City. Airlines such as American, United, Delta, Spirit, and JetBlue operate direct routes from hubs like Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas. Flight times range from about 2.5 to 5 hours depending on the origin."
      },
      "q4": {
        "question": "Which U.S. airports are usually cheapest for flying to Guatemala?",
        "answer": "Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles are often the cheapest US airports for flights to Guatemala, with Miami offering the most frequent nonstop service to Guatemala City. Smaller US cities usually require a domestic connection first, which can add to the total cost."
      },
      "q5": {
        "question": "Which airlines fly to Guatemala?",
        "answer": "American, United, Delta, JetBlue, Spirit, Frontier, and Avianca fly nonstop from the U.S. to Guatemala. Copa offers one-stop service."
      },
      "q6": {
        "question": "When is the cheapest time to fly to Guatemala?",
        "answer": "The cheapest time to fly to Guatemala is the shoulder of September and October, with February and January close behind, while fares climb sharply in December and peak summer around July and June. Aim to book about four to six weeks out for the lowest prices, and depart on a Tuesday for the best midweek fare. Late-night departures run cheapest, and you'll want to avoid the December holiday rush and Semana Santa in spring when demand pushes prices up.",
        "methodology": "This seasonal price baseline is a 365-day daily curve of typical round-trip fares for the route, precomputed monthly in-house from Priceline's own air booking-summary archive (the same data that backs the site), not a third party. For each calendar day we take a representative round-trip fare — a blend of the 25th-percentile and average ticket price over the route's bookings — and Gaussian-smooth the series so it reads as a clean seasonal trend rather than day-to-day noise. Thin and international routes are neighbor-filled: the seasonal shape is borrowed from the nearest dense routes (by origin-and-destination great-circle distance) with the price level anchored to the route's own bookings, so a sparse route still shows a plausible curve. It reflects current fares and is refreshed monthly. This booking-window guidance comes from the same monthly in-house analysis of Priceline's own air booking-summary archive. It expresses the typical round-trip fare as a function of how many days before departure a trip is booked — from about 180 days out down to the day of departure — aggregating the route's bookings by advance-purchase days and Gaussian-smoothing the curve the same way as the seasonal baseline. From that curve we highlight the stretch of lead times with the lowest average fare as the suggested booking window. Thin and international routes are neighbor-filled from the nearest dense routes, with the price level anchored to the route's own bookings. It reflects current fares and is refreshed monthly. The cheapest day of the week and time of day to depart are drawn from the same large sample of real fares Priceline users found on this route in the last 72 hours, grouped by the day of the week and by the time-of-day window of the outbound departure, with the lowest and average price reported for each."
      },
      "q7": {
        "question": "How far in advance should I book flights to Guatemala?",
        "answer": "For flights from the United States to Guatemala, the optimal booking window is about 12 to 15 weeks before departure, when fares average around $510, though peak seasons and holidays may require booking even earlier.",
        "methodology": "This booking-window guidance is built from the same real flight prices found by Priceline users searching this route, re-grouped by how many days before departure each price was seen (from the departure day out to about 180 days ahead) across the route's price history. At each booking lead time we report the 25th-percentile price — the cheaper end of what travelers were quoted, rather than the rock-bottom minimum (which can be a fluke) or the average (which is pulled up by expensive last-minute fares). The buy-or-wait advice then applies a risk premium that grows as departure approaches, since seat availability shrinks and prices become less predictable; using that adjusted curve we flag windows where waiting is likely to save a meaningful amount (at least $20 or 5%) versus windows where booking now is the better call. Isolated single-day recommendations are filtered out, so the advice only reflects a window that holds for several days in a row."
      },
      "q8": {
        "question": "Do I need a visa to travel to Guatemala?",
        "answer": "United States passport holders do not need a visa for short tourist visits to Guatemala, and may stay for up to 90 days.\n\nThis is general guidance to help you plan, not official immigration advice — entry rules can change and can depend on your nationality and circumstances, so please confirm the current requirements with the relevant embassy or official government source before you travel.",
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          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Guatemala",
            "title": "Visa policy of Guatemala",
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          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/guatemala/entry-requirements",
            "title": "Guatemala entry requirements — GOV.UK",
            "favicon": "https://www.gov.uk/favicon.ico"
          }
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      },
      "q10": {
        "question": "How easy is it to travel within Guatemala after I arrive?",
        "answer": "Guatemala is compact, so buses and shuttles are the main ways to get around. Arriving in Guatemala City gives you the most options for connecting buses or domestic flights to places like Flores or Quetzaltenango."
      }
    }
  }
}