Originally Posted by
JamesBond
That's fine, but my point is that if you don't account for it, those trips will turn into (essentially) turns.
There are reasons that a layover in South America is 30 hours. It is because the airplane sits for 12 hours before returning to the US. That is not the case in Mexico.
At least in the near past - some SA rotations were/are 12 hours like Santiago.