The sector is held by Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART, LATAM, LATAM Peru and Sky Airline.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AEP Buenos Aires to SCL Santiago
Jorge Newbery Airfield, Argentina, to Arturo Merino Benitez, Chile. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 13.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,147 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 58m
- Door to door
- 8h 43m
What AEP to SCL looks like
The AEP to SCL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Buenos Aires AEP to Santiago SCL is a short sector of 1,147 km by great circle, flown nonstop 13.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,147 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 58m.
Buenos Aires AEP is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 57 scheduled destinations and 210.1 departures a day. Santiago SCL has 55 destinations and 216.5 departures a day.
Santiago runs no time shift at all of Buenos Aires in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AEP to SCL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AEP to SCL | 13.43 | 94 | Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART, LATAM, LATAM Peru, Sky Airline |
| SCL to AEP | 8.14 | 57 | Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART, Sky Airline |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: AEP to SCL runs 13.4 times a day, the return runs 8.1 times a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 13.4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 151 departures a week on AEP to SCL, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 58m block time on AEP to SCL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AEP | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AEP before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AEP to SCL in the air, estimated | 118 min | 6h 28m |
| Formalities at SCL | 90 min | 7h 58m |
| Delivery run in Santiago | 45 min | 8h 43m |
| Door to door | 523 min | 8h 43m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for AEP to SCL is 8h 43m.
A courier who leaves Buenos Aires at 09:00 local is on the ground in Santiago at about 10:58 local and at the door by 13:13 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Santiago, the last useful departure from Buenos Aires is around 13:47 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 14 of them join AEP to SCL.
| Connecting at | AEP to hub, flights a day | Hub to SCL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buenos Aires EZE | 1 | 5.71 | 1,169 | 3h 30m |
| Mendoza MDZ | 12.43 | 4.14 | 1,174 | 3h 32m |
| Cordoba COR | 15.57 | 1.14 | 1,308 | 3h 55m |
| Montevideo MVD | 3.29 | 2.86 | 1,588 | 4h 05m |
| Asuncion ASU | 3.29 | 0.86 | 2,611 | 5h 20m |
| Porto Alegre POA | 1.14 | 1 | 2,740 | 5h 30m |
With 13.4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
14 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Buenos Aires EZE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through EZE the routing covers 1,169 km against the 1,147 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 30m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 32m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Mendoza MDZ at 3h 32m and Cordoba COR at 3h 55m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires EZE is 31 km away by great circle and carries 58 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Buenos Aires to Santiago yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says 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 is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for AEP to SCL in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The AEP airport entry
- The SCL airport entry
- Hand carry into Argentina
- Hand carry into Chile
- The written lane, Dubai to Santiago
- The route calculator
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