The sector is held by VivaAerobus and Xpressair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BJX Leon and Silao to NLU Mexico City
Del Bajio International, Mexico, to Felipe Angeles International, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 292 km
- Block, estimated
- 56 min
- Door to door
- 7h 41m
What BJX to NLU looks like
The BJX to NLU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Leon and Silao BJX to Mexico City NLU is a short sector of 292 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 292 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 56 min.
Leon and Silao BJX is a smaller airport in the network held here, 21 scheduled destinations and 36.1 departures a day. Mexico City NLU has 41 destinations and 83.4 departures a day.
Leon and Silao and Mexico City keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 NLU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJX to NLU | 2.14 | 15 | VivaAerobus, Xpressair |
| NLU to BJX | 2.14 | 15 | VivaAerobus, Xpressair |
Two carriers hold the sector, VivaAerobus and Xpressair, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 30 departures a week on BJX to NLU, 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 56 min block time on BJX to NLU. 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 NLU in the air, estimated | 56 min | 5h 26m |
| Formalities at NLU | 90 min | 6h 56m |
| Delivery run in Mexico City | 45 min | 7h 41m |
| Door to door | 461 min | 7h 41m |
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 NLU is 7h 41m.
A courier who leaves Leon and Silao at 09:00 local is on the ground in Mexico City at about 09:56 local and at the door by 12:11 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Mexico City, the last useful departure from Leon and Silao is around 14:49 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. 5 of them join BJX to NLU.
| Connecting at | BJX to hub, flights a day | Hub to NLU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 1.71 | 0.57 | 1,053 | 3h 33m |
| Monterrey MTY | 5.29 | 2.14 | 1,229 | 3h 49m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 0.71 | 1.86 | 2,052 | 4h 38m |
| Tijuana TIJ | 4.14 | 1.14 | 4,281 | 7h 28m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BJX in the afternoon actually flies on.
5 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Puerto Vallarta PVR, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through PVR the routing covers 1,053 km against the 292 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 33m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 37m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Monterrey MTY at 3h 49m and Los Cabos SJD at 4h 38m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 292 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 4h 34m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
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 Mexico City, Mexico City MEX is 36 km away by great circle and carries 106 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Leon and Silao to Mexico City 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 NLU 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 NLU airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- 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 NLU: Leon and Silao to Houston, Leon and Silao to Monterrey, Tijuana to Leon and Silao, Mexico City to Leon and Silao, Dallas to Leon and Silao, Leon and Silao to Cancun, Chicago to Leon and Silao, Leon and Silao to Oakland.