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MGA Managua
Augusto Sandino, NI. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 10
- Countries reached
- 7
- Airlines
- 7
- Departures a day
- 16.0
Where you can fly from MGA
Every scheduled destination held for this airport, ordered by how often it is flown. Distances are great circle, computed from published coordinates.
| Destination | Country | Flights a day | Operated by | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami MIA | the United States | 3.71 | AA, AV | 1,639 | plan this |
| Santa Clara SAL | SV | 3.43 | AV | 345 | plan this |
| Tocumen PTY | PA | 2.57 | CM | 817 | plan this |
| Corn Island RNI | NI | 1.57 | LC | plan this | |
| Houston IAH | the United States | 1.29 | UA | 2,198 | plan this |
| Bluefileds BEF | NI | 1.14 | LC | plan this | |
| San José SJO | CR | 1 | CM, World Ticket Ltd | 321 | plan this |
| Guatemala City GUA | GT | 0.43 | CM | 544 | plan this |
| Mexico City MEX | Mexico | 0.43 | AM | 1,600 | plan this |
| Puerto Cabezas PUZ | NI | 0.43 | LC | plan this |
One connection away
365 airports are reachable from MGA with exactly one change, on top of the 10 nonstop. The ten below are the ones with the most frequency on the weaker of the two sectors, which is the leg that decides whether a same day connection holds. Computed from the scheduled network, not from a booking engine.
| Destination | Country | Best connection | Flights a day on the weaker leg | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bogota BOG | CO | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| Orlando MCO | the United States | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| Madrid MAD | Spain | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| Newark EWR | the United States | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| Medellin MDE | CO | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| Atlanta ATL | the United States | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| Cancun CUN | Mexico | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| Dallas DFW | the United States | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| New York JFK | the United States | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
| San Francisco SFO | the United States | via MIA | 3.71 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from MGA is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Tegucigalpa TGU242 km by great circle, 4 scheduled destinations
- San Jose SJO321 km by great circle, 35 scheduled destinations
- San Salvador SAL345 km by great circle, 29 scheduled destinations
How deep the MGA board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from MGA. This reads the same 10 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.
- 8of the 10 destinations are flown by one airline
- 3destinations run less than once a day
- 0destinations have four or more departures a day
- 30%of the destinations name Copa Airlines, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at MGA
Seven airlines appear on the MGA board and they do not hold it evenly. Copa Airlines is on 3 of the 10 destinations, 30 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 4 of the 16 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.
The next largest presence is Skyway on 3 destinations. 4 of the 7 airlines at MGA appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.
That is a middling concentration at MGA: one airline on 30 per cent of the destinations and the other 70 per cent spread across 6 airlines. A cancellation inside the Copa Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 7 destinations Copa Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.
How much of the MGA board is daily
Of the 10 destinations, 7 are flown at least once a day and 3 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the MGA board is flown about once a day.
An average of 0.43 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MGA to Puerto Cabezas (PUZ) is 3 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.
The five busiest destinations carry 12.6 of the 16 departures a day, 78.6 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves MGA is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.
| Destination | Country | The only airline on it | Flights a week | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala City GUA | Guatemala | Copa Airlines | 3 | 544 | plan this |
| Mexico City MEX | Mexico | Aeromexico | 3 | 1,600 | plan this |
| Puerto Cabezas PUZ | Nicaragua | Skyway | 3 | 368 | plan this |
The three destinations out of MGA where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable.
The way back from MGA
The desk holds the return direction for 7 of the 10 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 7 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through MGA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.
It runs the other way as well: Houston (IAH) files 1.9 a day back into MGA against 1.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at MGA
MGA keeps America/Managua time, ten hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 23:00 at MGA, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.
Where MGA turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Nicaragua country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.
Four courier postings name MGA as the airport a courier here flies from: Managua, León and Masaya.
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MGA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 10 destinations above.
Where this came from
- Destination network, airlines and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07.
- Airport names and coordinates: the OnBoard Courier airport reference list.
- Distances: great circle, computed from those coordinates. They are not flown distances and will read short against a real routing.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing on this page states or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment through MGA is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. We keep the Atlas because our own desk needs it when there are twenty minutes to find a routing, and we publish it because a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite, including by competing operators. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct the entry.
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