MDZ Mendoza

How deep the MDZ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MDZ. This reads the same 12 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, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 8of the 12 destinations are flown by one airline
• 5destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 41.7%of the destinations name Aerolineas Argentinas, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MDZ

Ten airlines appear on the MDZ board and they do not hold it evenly. Aerolineas Argentinas is on 5 of the 12 destinations, 41.7 per cent of them, and on 3 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 12.9 of the 24 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 JetSMART on 4 destinations. 8 of the 10 airlines at MDZ 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 MDZ: one airline on 41.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 58.3 per cent spread across 9 airlines. A cancellation inside the Aerolineas Argentinas network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 7 destinations Aerolineas Argentinas does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the MDZ board is daily

Of the 12 destinations, 7 are flown at least once a day and 5 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MDZ board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MDZ to Sydney (SYD) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 19.3 of the 24 departures a day, 80.3 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic MDZ is five sectors and a short tail, 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 those five is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Sydney SYD	Australia	Qantas	1	11,496	plan this
Comodoro Rivadavia CRD	Argentina	Aerolineas Argentinas	2	1,445	plan this
Rio de Janeiro GIG	Brazil	JetSMART	3	2,738	plan this
Lima LIM	Peru	LATAM Peru	6	2,464	plan this
Neuquén NQN	Argentina	Aerolineas Argentinas	6	683	plan this

The five destinations out of MDZ 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 MDZ

The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 12 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 8 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through MDZ is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Buenos Aires (AEP) files 12.4 a day back into MDZ against 9.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MDZ

MDZ keeps America/Argentina/Mendoza time, seven hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 02:00 at MDZ, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for two hours. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for MDZ is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at MDZ

1 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Sydney (SYD) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from MDZ that lands inside it leaves around 19:39, on a modelled block of 14h 21m. Those one departure times out of MDZ are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where MDZ turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Argentina country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

Five courier postings name MDZ as the airport a courier here flies from: San Luis, Rawson and San Rafael.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MDZ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 12 destinations above.