The sector is held by Aeromexico.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MEX Mexico City to EZE Buenos Aires
Benito Juarez International, Mexico, to Ministro Pistarini, Argentina. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 7,397 km
- Block, estimated
- 9h 25m
- Door to door
- 16h 10m
What MEX to EZE looks like
The MEX to EZE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Mexico City MEX to Buenos Aires EZE is a long haul sector of 7,397 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 7,397 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 9h 25m.
Mexico City MEX is a large airport in the network held here, 106 scheduled destinations and 416.7 departures a day. Buenos Aires EZE has 58 destinations and 109.4 departures a day.
Mexico City carries about 3.8 times the departures of Buenos Aires, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Buenos Aires is 3 hours ahead of Mexico City all year.
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 MEX to EZE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEX to EZE | 1.14 | 8 | Aeromexico |
| EZE to MEX | 1.14 | 8 | Aeromexico |
One carrier holds the sector, Aeromexico, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on MEX to EZE, 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 9h 25m block time on MEX to EZE. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MEX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MEX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MEX to EZE in the air, estimated | 565 min | 13h 55m |
| Formalities at EZE | 90 min | 15h 25m |
| Delivery run in Buenos Aires | 45 min | 16h 10m |
| Door to door | 970 min | 16h 10m |
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 MEX to EZE is 16h 10m.
A courier who leaves Mexico City at 09:00 local is on the ground in Buenos Aires at about 21:25 local and at the door by 23:40 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Buenos Aires, nothing leaving Mexico City inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 16h 10m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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 MEX to EZE.
| Connecting at | MEX to hub, flights a day | Hub to EZE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quito UIO | 0.71 | 0.71 | 7,509 | 11h 03m |
| Santiago SCL | 1 | 3.43 | 7,735 | 11h 24m |
| Panama City PTY | 8.14 | 7.29 | 7,762 | 11h 32m |
| Medellin MDE | 2.29 | 1.14 | 7,842 | 11h 39m |
| Bogota BOG | 7.71 | 3.43 | 7,848 | 11h 42m |
| Punta Cana PUJ | 1.14 | 3.29 | 9,253 | 13h 09m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at MEX in the afternoon actually flies on.
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Quito UIO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through UIO the routing covers 7,509 km against the 7,397 km nonstop track and takes about 11h 03m 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 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Santiago SCL at 11h 24m and Panama City PTY at 11h 32m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Mexico City, Mexico City NLU is 36 km away by great circle and carries 41 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through MEX or EZE. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Volkswagen, PueblaAssembly for the North American market. German tooling, Mexican line, and an ocean in between. Logistics through Mexico City MEX.
Plan Mexico City to Buenos Aires 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 MEX to EZE 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 MEX airport entry
- The EZE airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into Argentina
- The written lane, Dubai to Buenos Aires
- The written lane, Madrid to Buenos Aires
- The route calculator
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