The sector is held by Aeromexico.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MEX Mexico City to BJX Leon and Silao
Benito Juarez International, Mexico, to Del Bajio International, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 305 km
- Block, estimated
- 57 min
- Door to door
- 7h 42m
What MEX to BJX looks like
The MEX to BJX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Mexico City MEX to Leon and Silao BJX is a short sector of 305 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 305 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 57 min.
Mexico City MEX is a large airport in the network held here, 106 scheduled destinations and 416.7 departures a day. Leon and Silao BJX has 21 destinations and 36.1 departures a day.
Mexico City carries about 11.5 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.
Mexico City and Leon and Silao 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 MEX to BJX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEX to BJX | 5.29 | 37 | Aeromexico |
| BJX to MEX | 5.29 | 37 | Aeromexico |
One carrier holds the sector, Aeromexico, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 5.3 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 74.1 departures a week on MEX to BJX, 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 57 min block time on MEX to BJX. 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 BJX in the air, estimated | 57 min | 5h 27m |
| Formalities at BJX | 90 min | 6h 57m |
| Delivery run in Leon and Silao | 45 min | 7h 42m |
| Door to door | 462 min | 7h 42m |
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 BJX is 7h 42m.
A courier who leaves Mexico City at 09:00 local is on the ground in Leon and Silao at about 09:57 local and at the door by 12:12 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Leon and Silao, the last useful departure from Mexico City is around 14:48 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. 13 of them join MEX to BJX.
| Connecting at | MEX to hub, flights a day | Hub to BJX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 5.29 | 1.71 | 1,054 | 3h 33m |
| Monterrey MTY | 30.86 | 5.29 | 1,263 | 3h 52m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 8.14 | 0.71 | 2,060 | 4h 38m |
| Houston IAH | 10.57 | 4 | 2,406 | 5h 19m |
| Cancun CUN | 24.43 | 3 | 2,799 | 5h 34m |
| Ciudad Juarez CJS | 6.43 | 1.14 | 2,825 | 5h 36m |
With 5.3 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.
13 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 about once a day.
Through PVR the routing covers 1,054 km against the 305 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 36m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Monterrey MTY at 3h 52m 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 305 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 46m, 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 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 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through MEX or BJX. 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 Leon and Silao 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 BJX 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 BJX 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
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