The sector is held by United Airlines and VivaAerobus.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ORD Chicago to MTY Monterrey
O'Hare International, the United States, to General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,119 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 12m
- Door to door
- 9h 57m
What ORD to MTY looks like
The ORD to MTY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Chicago ORD to Monterrey MTY is a medium haul sector of 2,119 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,119 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 12m.
Chicago ORD is a major hub in the network held here, 295 scheduled destinations and 1,461 departures a day. Monterrey MTY has 64 destinations and 159.4 departures a day.
Chicago carries about 9.2 times the departures of Monterrey, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Monterrey runs no time shift at all of Chicago 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 ORD to MTY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORD to MTY | 1.57 | 11 | United Airlines, VivaAerobus |
| MTY to ORD | 1.16 | 8.1 | United Airlines, VivaAerobus |
Two carriers hold the sector, United Airlines and VivaAerobus, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: ORD to MTY runs about once a day, the return runs about once a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 19.1 departures a week on ORD to MTY, 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 3h 12m block time on ORD to MTY. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ORD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ORD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ORD to MTY in the air, estimated | 192 min | 7h 42m |
| Formalities at MTY | 90 min | 9h 12m |
| Delivery run in Monterrey | 45 min | 9h 57m |
| Door to door | 597 min | 9h 57m |
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 ORD to MTY is 9h 57m.
A courier who leaves Chicago at 09:00 local is on the ground in Monterrey at about 12:12 local and at the door by 14:27 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Monterrey, the last useful departure from Chicago is around 12:33 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. 25 of them join ORD to MTY.
| Connecting at | ORD to hub, flights a day | Hub to MTY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston IAH | 21.43 | 8 | 2,153 | 5h 07m |
| Dallas DFW | 26.43 | 7.29 | 2,136 | 5h 14m |
| Detroit DTW | 21.43 | 0.71 | 2,759 | 5h 51m |
| Atlanta ATL | 23.29 | 1.86 | 2,721 | 5h 59m |
| Leon and Silao BJX | 0.57 | 5.29 | 3,207 | 6h 13m |
| Guadalajara GDL | 3.29 | 11.57 | 3,459 | 6h 33m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ORD in the afternoon actually flies on.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Houston IAH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 8 times a day.
Through IAH the routing covers 2,153 km against the 2,119 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 07m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 55m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dallas DFW at 5h 14m and Detroit DTW at 5h 51m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Chicago, Chicago MDW is 25 km away by great circle and carries 208 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Chicago to Monterrey 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 ORD to MTY 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 ORD airport entry
- The MTY airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Chicago
- The written lane, Chicago to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Chicago to Queretaro
- The route calculator
More pairs through ORD and MTY: Atlanta to Monterrey, Mexico City to Monterrey, Guadalajara to Monterrey, San Francisco to Monterrey, Mexico City to Monterrey, Tijuana to Monterrey, Monterrey to Queretaro, Miami to Monterrey.