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QRO Queretaro
Queretaro Intercontinental, Mexico. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 28
- Countries reached
- 3
- Airlines
- 9
- Departures a day
- 33.6
Where you can fly from QRO
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monterrey MTY | Mexico | 6.14 | VB, Y4 | 574 | plan this |
| Houston IAH | the United States | 4.29 | UA, VB, Y4 | 1,149 | plan this |
| Dallas-Fort Worth DFW | the United States | 3.86 | AA, VB, Y4 | 1,401 | plan this |
| Mexico City MEX | Mexico | 3.29 | AM | 176 | plan this |
| Cancún CUN | Mexico | 2.86 | VB, Y4 | 1,384 | plan this |
| Tijuana TIJ | Mexico | 1.43 | Y4 | 2,126 | plan this |
| Atlanta ATL | the United States | 1.14 | AM | 2,123 | plan this |
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | Mexico | 1.14 | Y4 | 527 | plan this |
| San Antonio SAT | the United States | 1 | VB, Y4 | plan this | |
| Detroit DTW | the United States | 0.71 | AM | 2,872 | plan this |
| Guadalajara GDL | Mexico | 0.71 | Y4 | 325 | plan this |
| Mazatlán MZT | Mexico | 0.71 | Y4 | plan this | |
| Mérida MID | Mexico | 0.71 | VB | 1,095 | plan this |
| Acapulco ACA | Mexico | 0.57 | Y4 | plan this | |
| Ixtapa ZIH | Mexico | 0.57 | Y4 | plan this | |
| Oaxaca City OAX | Mexico | 0.57 | Y4 | plan this | |
| Chicago ORD | the United States | 0.43 | Y4 | 2,640 | plan this |
| Denver DEN | the United States | 0.43 | Y4 | 2,181 | plan this |
| Laredo LRD | the United States | 0.43 | Aeronaves TSM | plan this | |
| Los Angeles LAX | the United States | 0.43 | Y4 | 2,325 | plan this |
| San José del Cabo SJD | Mexico | 0.43 | VB | 1,023 | plan this |
| Veracruz VER | Mexico | 0.43 | Y4 | plan this | |
| Durango DGO | Mexico | 0.29 | Y4 | plan this | |
| Madrid MAD | Spain | 0.29 | E9 | 9,070 | plan this |
| Orlando MCO | the United States | 0.29 | Y4 | 2,095 | plan this |
| Austin AUS | the United States | 0.14 | Flexjet | plan this | |
| Chattanooga CHA | the United States | 0.14 | IFL Group | plan this | |
| San Diego SDM | the United States | 0.14 | Y4 | plan this |
One connection away
761 airports are reachable from QRO with exactly one change, on top of the 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leon and Silao BJX | Mexico | via MTY | 5.29 | plan this |
| TLC TLC | via MTY | 5.14 | plan this | |
| Philadelphia PHL | the United States | via IAH | 4.29 | plan this |
| Charlotte CLT | the United States | via IAH | 4.29 | plan this |
| Baltimore BWI | the United States | via IAH | 4.29 | plan this |
| Newark EWR | the United States | via IAH | 4.29 | plan this |
| Boston BOS | the United States | via IAH | 4.29 | plan this |
| Nashville BNA | the United States | via IAH | 4.29 | plan this |
| Miami MIA | the United States | via IAH | 4.29 | plan this |
| Raleigh RDU | the United States | via IAH | 4.29 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from QRO is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Leon and Silao BJX140 km by great circle, 21 scheduled destinations
- Mexico City NLU155 km by great circle, 41 scheduled destinations
- Mexico City MEX176 km by great circle, 106 scheduled destinations
- San Luis Potosi SLP197 km by great circle, 11 scheduled destinations
- Puebla PBC250 km by great circle, 15 scheduled destinations
How deep the QRO board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from QRO. This reads the same 28 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.
- 23of the 28 destinations are flown by one airline
- 19destinations run less than once a day
- 2destinations have four or more departures a day
- 67.9%of the destinations name Volaris, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at QRO
Nine airlines appear on the QRO board and they do not hold it evenly. Volaris is on 19 of the 28 destinations, 67.9 per cent of them, and on 14 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 26.3 of the 33.6 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 VivaAerobus on 7 destinations. 6 of the 9 airlines at QRO 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.
An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 19 of the 28 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a QRO sector is usually another Volaris aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at QRO than the destination count does.
How much of the QRO board is daily
Of the 28 destinations, 9 are flown at least once a day and 19 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the QRO board is flown 4 times a week.
An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: QRO to San Diego (SDM) 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 20.4 of the 33.6 departures a day, 60.9 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves QRO 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin AUS | the United States | Flexjet | 1 | 1,094 | plan this |
| Chattanooga CHA | the United States | IFL Group | 1 | 2,172 | plan this |
| San Diego SDM | the United States | Volaris | 1 | 2,129 | plan this |
| Durango DGO | Mexico | Volaris | 2 | 593 | plan this |
| Madrid MAD | Spain | Evelop Airlines | 2 | 9,070 | plan this |
| Orlando MCO | the United States | Volaris | 2 | 2,094 | plan this |
| Chicago ORD | the United States | Volaris | 3 | 2,640 | plan this |
| Denver DEN | the United States | Volaris | 3 | 2,182 | plan this |
| Laredo LRD | the United States | Aeronaves TSM | 3 | 774 | plan this |
| Los Angeles LAX | the United States | Volaris | 3 | 2,325 | plan this |
The ten destinations out of QRO 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. 9 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.
The way back from QRO
The desk holds the return direction for 17 of the 28 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into QRO runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Los Angeles (LAX) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.
It runs the other way as well: Tijuana (TIJ) files 2.3 a day back into QRO against 1.4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at QRO
QRO keeps America/Mexico_City time, ten hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 23:00 at QRO, 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 QRO turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Mexico country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.
The site publishes 9 airport pair pages that start or end at QRO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Queretaro to Monterrey (MTY), Queretaro to Houston (IAH) and Queretaro to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW).
Four of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Chicago to Queretaro, Frankfurt to Queretaro and Munich to Queretaro. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at QRO written out.
Six courier postings name QRO as the airport a courier here flies from: Santiago de Querétaro, Irapuato and Celaya.
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with QRO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 28 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 QRO 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.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes. If you fly often and want to carry, we are recruiting couriers.