The sector is held by United Airlines and VivaAerobus.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BJX Leon and Silao to IAH Houston
Del Bajio International, Mexico, to George Bush Intercontinental, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,174 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 00m
- Door to door
- 8h 45m
What BJX to IAH looks like
The BJX to IAH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Leon and Silao BJX to Houston IAH is a short sector of 1,174 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,174 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 00m.
Leon and Silao BJX is a smaller airport in the network held here, 21 scheduled destinations and 36.1 departures a day. Houston IAH has 197 destinations and 641 departures a day.
Houston carries about 17.7 times the departures of Leon and Silao, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Houston runs no time shift at all of Leon and Silao in January and one hour ahead 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 BJX to IAH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJX to IAH | 4 | 28 | United Airlines, VivaAerobus |
| IAH to BJX | 4 | 28 | United Airlines, VivaAerobus |
Two carriers hold the sector, United Airlines and VivaAerobus, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 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 56 departures a week on BJX to IAH, 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 2h 00m block time on BJX to IAH. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BJX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BJX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BJX to IAH in the air, estimated | 120 min | 6h 30m |
| Formalities at IAH | 90 min | 8h 00m |
| Delivery run in Houston | 45 min | 8h 45m |
| Door to door | 525 min | 8h 45m |
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 BJX to IAH is 8h 45m.
A courier who leaves Leon and Silao at 09:00 local is on the ground in Houston at about 11:00 local and at the door by 13:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Houston, the last useful departure from Leon and Silao is around 13:45 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. 12 of them join BJX to IAH.
| Connecting at | BJX to hub, flights a day | Hub to IAH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monterrey MTY | 5.29 | 8.14 | 1,212 | 3h 47m |
| Mexico City MEX | 5.29 | 10.57 | 1,537 | 4h 16m |
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 1.71 | 1.14 | 1,829 | 4h 25m |
| Dallas DFW | 3.43 | 19.57 | 1,756 | 4h 49m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 0.71 | 2.29 | 2,499 | 5h 12m |
| Cancun CUN | 3 | 5.57 | 2,822 | 5h 36m |
With 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.
12 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Monterrey MTY, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.3 times a day.
Through MTY the routing covers 1,212 km against the 1,174 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 47m 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 47m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Mexico City MEX at 4h 16m and Puerto Vallarta PVR at 4h 25m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Leon and Silao, Queretaro QRO is 141 km away by great circle and carries 28 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Houston, Houston HOU is 38 km away by great circle and carries 145 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Leon and Silao to Houston 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 BJX to IAH 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 BJX airport entry
- The IAH airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Detroit to Silao
- The written lane, Milan to Silao
- The written lane, Tokyo to Leon
- The route calculator
More pairs through BJX and IAH: Leon and Silao to Monterrey, Tijuana to Leon and Silao, Mexico City to Leon and Silao, Leon and Silao to Mexico City, Dallas to Leon and Silao, Leon and Silao to Cancun, Chicago to Leon and Silao, Leon and Silao to Oakland.