The sector is held by Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BJX Leon and Silao to SJC San Jose
Del Bajio International, Mexico, to Norman Y Mineta, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,682 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 56m
- Door to door
- 10h 41m
What BJX to SJC looks like
The BJX to SJC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Leon and Silao BJX to San Jose SJC is a medium haul sector of 2,682 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,682 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 56m.
Leon and Silao BJX is a smaller airport in the network held here, 21 scheduled destinations and 36.1 departures a day. San Jose SJC has 122 destinations and 193.3 departures a day.
San Jose carries about 5.3 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.
San Jose runs 2 hours behind of Leon and Silao 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 BJX to SJC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJX to SJC | 0.43 | 3 | Volaris |
| SJC to BJX | 0.43 | 3 | Volaris |
One carrier holds the sector, Volaris, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 6 departures a week on BJX to SJC, 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 56m block time on BJX to SJC. 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 SJC in the air, estimated | 236 min | 8h 26m |
| Formalities at SJC | 90 min | 9h 56m |
| Delivery run in San Jose | 45 min | 10h 41m |
| Door to door | 641 min | 10h 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 SJC is 10h 41m.
A courier who leaves Leon and Silao at 09:00 local is on the ground in San Jose at about 10:56 local and at the door by 13:11 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in San Jose, the last useful departure from Leon and Silao is around 13:49 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 SJC.
| Connecting at | BJX to hub, flights a day | Hub to SJC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland OAK | 0.71 | 1.57 | 2,773 | 5h 33m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 0.71 | 14.29 | 2,695 | 6h 03m |
| Dallas DFW | 3.43 | 3.43 | 3,704 | 7h 14m |
| Atlanta ATL | 1 | 2.71 | 5,587 | 9h 24m |
| Chicago ORD | 0.71 | 2.43 | 5,594 | 9h 39m |
5 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Oakland OAK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through OAK the routing covers 2,773 km against the 2,682 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 33m 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 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Los Angeles LAX at 6h 03m and Dallas DFW at 7h 14m 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 San Jose, Oakland OAK is 47 km away by great circle and carries 89 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Leon and Silao to San Jose 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 SJC 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 SJC 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 SJC: Leon and Silao to Houston, 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.