The sector is held by Aerolineas Argentinas, Atlas Air, DHL Aero Expreso, JetSMART, KLM and LATAM.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EZE Buenos Aires to SCL Santiago
Ministro Pistarini, Argentina, to Arturo Merino Benitez, Chile. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,138 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 57m
- Door to door
- 8h 42m
What EZE to SCL looks like
The EZE to SCL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Buenos Aires EZE to Santiago SCL is a short sector of 1,138 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,138 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 57m.
Buenos Aires EZE is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 58 scheduled destinations and 109.4 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 EZE to SCL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EZE to SCL | 5.71 | 40 | Aerolineas Argentinas, Atlas Air, DHL Aero Expreso, JetSMART, KLM, LATAM |
| SCL to EZE | 3.43 | 24 | KLM, LATAM |
6 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 SCL runs 5.7 times a day, the return runs 3.4 times a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 5.7 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 64 departures a week on EZE 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 57m block time on EZE 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 EZE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EZE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EZE to SCL in the air, estimated | 117 min | 6h 27m |
| Formalities at SCL | 90 min | 7h 57m |
| Delivery run in Santiago | 45 min | 8h 42m |
| Door to door | 522 min | 8h 42m |
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 SCL is 8h 42m.
A courier who leaves Buenos Aires at 09:00 local is on the ground in Santiago at about 10:57 local and at the door by 13:12 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Santiago, the last useful departure from Buenos Aires is around 13:48 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. 20 of them join EZE to SCL.
| Connecting at | EZE to hub, flights a day | Hub to SCL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendoza MDZ | 3.86 | 4.14 | 1,168 | 3h 31m |
| Cordoba COR | 2.86 | 1.14 | 1,315 | 3h 56m |
| Sao Paulo GRU | 4.29 | 15.57 | 4,336 | 7h 47m |
| Rio de Janeiro GIG | 5.57 | 7.57 | 4,930 | 8h 18m |
| Lima LIM | 2.86 | 13.43 | 5,615 | 8h 57m |
| Guayaquil GYE | 0.57 | 1.14 | 7,851 | 11h 27m |
With 5.7 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.
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Mendoza MDZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.9 times a day.
Through MDZ the routing covers 1,168 km against the 1,138 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 31m 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 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Cordoba COR at 3h 56m and Sao Paulo GRU at 7h 47m 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 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 EZE 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 EZE airport entry
- The SCL airport entry
- Hand carry into Argentina
- Hand carry into Chile
- The written lane, Dubai to Buenos Aires
- The written lane, Madrid to Buenos Aires
- The written lane, Dubai to Santiago
- The route calculator
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