Paisano Membership: $119 for your trip home to Mexico
You are flying home for two weeks, maybe three. A wedding, a funeral, the harvest, your mother's birthday. You are going to a rancho in Michoacán, a small town in Jalisco, a pueblo in Guanajuato or Zacatecas — somewhere the nearest real hospital is two hours of bad road away. Nothing is going to happen. It almost never does.
But if it does, this is what $119 buys you: if you end up in a hospital in Mexico during your trip and the care you need is not there, we fly you to the hospital you choose. One price, paid before you leave, covering the whole trip up to 30 days.
The gap almost nobody sees until they are in it
Your US health plan mostly stops at the border. Travel insurance bought at the airport pays a reimbursement after the fact — it does not send an aircraft. The small-town clinic that admits you will stabilize you and then tell your family the patient needs to be somewhere else. At that point the family is making phone calls at two in the morning, in a second language, being quoted twenty, thirty, forty thousand dollars for a flight, and being told payment must clear before the aircraft moves.
That is the moment this membership exists for. Not the hospital bill — the transport. Getting the patient out of a facility that cannot treat them and into one that can.
What the $119 covers
One covered medical transport to the hospital you choose, if you are hospitalized during the covered trip and need care the treating facility cannot provide.
ICU jet or medical escort — which one you get is decided on clinical grounds by our medical director, not by what is cheaper.
One ground ambulance inside Mexico, to or from the aircraft. We hold that ground capability ourselves rather than subcontracting it, which is why it does not take days to arrange.
Companion travel where the aircraft and the patient's condition allow it.
A 24/7 assistance line answered in Spanish and English by people who coordinate these flights for a living.
The whole trip, up to 30 days — not a per-day rate, not a deductible, not a reimbursement form.
The terms, stated plainly
It covers what starts after you buy it. If someone is already in hospital or already needs to be moved, this membership is not the right product — call us and we will quote that transport directly.
Transport to the United States or Canada requires documentation permitting lawful entry to that country. We say this up front rather than at the worst possible moment. It does not affect transport between points inside Mexico, which is what most of these cases turn out to be.
Refunds: you can cancel within 7 days of purchase and get your money back, provided the trip has not started and no claim or request for transport has been made. After that it is non-refundable, used or not.
For hometown clubs, federations and group leaders
If you run a club de oriundos, a federation, a parish group, a soccer league or a labor contractor crew, you already know the story: every December someone's family is raising money on social media for a flight. We would rather sell your members the membership in November.
Tell us roughly how many travelers you are speaking for and when they travel, and we will set you up with a sign-up link for your group, Spanish and English materials you can hand out at a meeting, and a named coordinator your members reach directly instead of a call center. Group arrangements are available — ask us.
Who is actually flying you
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance has been moving critical patients since 1994, incorporated as MED JETS S.A. de C.V. in 1996. We operate our own aircraft and our own ground ambulances in Mexico, with bilingual flight physicians and critical care nurses. We hold Florida Department of Health EMS Service Provider licence AIR9505, status clear, verifiable on the State of Florida public licence register — the only Mexican air ambulance operator that holds one.
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance is an indirect air carrier. All flights are operated by FAA Part 135 certificated direct air carriers or their foreign equivalents.
Buy it before you travel
$119 for the trip, up to 30 days. Buy the Paisano Membership here.
If something has already happened
If a relative is already in a hospital in Mexico, do not buy a membership — call us. We will tell you what the transport costs, what your insurance is likely to pay, and whether a commercial flight with a medical escort is clinically adequate for the case, which costs considerably less than a dedicated aircraft. We operate 24 hours a day.
