The sector is held by Avianca Costa Rica, Avianca Ecuador, Emirates and Avianca.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EZE Buenos Aires to UIO Quito
Ministro Pistarini, Argentina, to Mariscal Sucre International, Ecuador. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 4,373 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 46m
- Door to door
- 12h 31m
What EZE to UIO looks like
The EZE to UIO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Buenos Aires EZE to Quito UIO is a long haul sector of 4,373 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,373 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 46m.
Buenos Aires EZE is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 58 scheduled destinations and 109.4 departures a day. Quito UIO has 22 destinations and 59.2 departures a day.
Quito is 2 hours behind of Buenos Aires all year.
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 EZE to UIO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EZE to UIO | 1.86 | 13 | Avianca Costa Rica, Avianca Ecuador, Emirates |
| UIO to EZE | 0.71 | 5 | Avianca |
4 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: EZE to UIO runs about once a day, the return runs 5 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 18 departures a week on EZE to UIO, 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 5h 46m block time on EZE to UIO. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to EZE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EZE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EZE to UIO in the air, estimated | 346 min | 10h 16m |
| Formalities at UIO | 90 min | 11h 46m |
| Delivery run in Quito | 45 min | 12h 31m |
| Door to door | 751 min | 12h 31m |
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 EZE to UIO is 12h 31m.
A courier who leaves Buenos Aires at 09:00 local is on the ground in Quito at about 12:46 local and at the door by 15:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Quito, the last useful departure from Buenos Aires is around 11:59 local.
At 12h 31m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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 EZE to UIO.
| Connecting at | EZE to hub, flights a day | Hub to UIO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lima LIM | 2.86 | 3 | 4,483 | 7h 30m |
| Guayaquil GYE | 0.57 | 16.71 | 4,533 | 7h 32m |
| Bogota BOG | 2.57 | 7.57 | 5,401 | 8h 57m |
| Medellin MDE | 1.14 | 0.86 | 5,662 | 9h 01m |
| Panama City PTY | 7.29 | 6.86 | 6,380 | 9h 46m |
| Miami MIA | 6 | 4.29 | 10,009 | 14h 46m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at EZE in the afternoon actually flies on.
14 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Lima LIM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through LIM the routing covers 4,483 km against the 4,373 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 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 44m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Guayaquil GYE at 7h 32m and Bogota BOG at 8h 57m 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 AEP is 31 km away by great circle and carries 57 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Buenos Aires to Quito 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 EZE to UIO 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 EZE airport entry
- The UIO airport entry
- Hand carry into Argentina
- Hand carry into Ecuador
- The written lane, Dubai to Buenos Aires
- The written lane, Madrid to Buenos Aires
- The route calculator
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