TIJ Tijuana

How deep the TIJ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from TIJ. This reads the same 45 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.

• 31of the 45 destinations are flown by one airline
• 16destinations run less than once a day
• 7destinations have four or more departures a day
• 77.8%of the destinations name Volaris, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at TIJ

16 airlines appear on the TIJ board and they do not hold it evenly. Volaris is on 35 of the 45 destinations, 77.8 per cent of them, and on 23 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 110 of the 115.4 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 12 destinations. 12 of the 16 airlines at TIJ 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 35 of the 45 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a TIJ 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 TIJ than the destination count does.

How much of the TIJ board is daily

Of the 45 destinations, 29 are flown at least once a day and 16 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the TIJ 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: TIJ to Tucson (AVW) 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 49.9 of the 115.4 departures a day, 43.2 per cent of the whole board. The other 40 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at TIJ usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Houston HOU	the United States	YEL	1	2,087	the pair page
Portsmouth PSM	the United States	JRE	1	4,163	plan this
Tucson AVW	the United States	Flexjet	1	540	plan this
Houston IAH	the United States	Flexjet	2	2,072	the pair page
Mérida MID	Mexico	Volaris	3	2,991	plan this
Torreón TRC	Mexico	Volaris	3	1,527	plan this
Veracruz VER	Mexico	Volaris	3	2,550	plan this
Ixtapa ZIH	Mexico	Volaris	4	2,275	plan this
Puerto Escondido PXM	Mexico	Volaris	4	2,729	plan this
Shenzhen SZX	China	China Southern Airlines	4	11,848	the pair page

The ten destinations out of TIJ 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. 4 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from TIJ

The desk holds the return direction for 16 of the 45 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On seven of them the return into TIJ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are San Diego (SAN) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, San Luis Potosí (SLP) at 1.1 out a day against 0.71 back and Querétaro (QRO) at 2.3 out a day against 1.4 back.

It runs the other way as well: Mexico City (NLU) files 4.3 a day back into TIJ against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at TIJ

TIJ keeps America/Tijuana time, eleven hours behind Dubai in summer and twelve hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 22:00 at TIJ, 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 TIJ 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 13 airport pair pages that start or end at TIJ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Tijuana to Mexico City (MEX), Tijuana to Guadalajara (GDL) and Tijuana to Silao (BJX).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Los Angeles to Tijuana and San Diego to Tijuana. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at TIJ written out.

Four courier postings name TIJ as the airport a courier here flies from: Tijuana, Mexicali and Ensenada.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with TIJ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 45 destinations above.