The sector is held by Aeromexico and Avianca.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MEX Mexico City to MDE Medellin
Benito Juarez International, Mexico, to Jose Maria Cordova, Colombia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,952 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 16m
- Door to door
- 11h 01m
What MEX to MDE looks like
The MEX to MDE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Mexico City MEX to Medellin MDE is a medium haul sector of 2,952 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,952 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 16m.
Mexico City MEX is a large airport in the network held here, 106 scheduled destinations and 416.7 departures a day. Medellin MDE has 39 destinations and 158.7 departures a day.
Mexico City carries about 2.6 times the departures of Medellin, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Medellin is one hour 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 MDE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEX to MDE | 2.29 | 16 | Aeromexico, Avianca |
| MDE to MEX | 2.14 | 15 | Aeromexico, Avianca |
Two carriers hold the sector, Aeromexico and Avianca, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 31 departures a week on MEX to MDE, 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 4h 16m block time on MEX to MDE. 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 MDE in the air, estimated | 256 min | 8h 46m |
| Formalities at MDE | 90 min | 10h 16m |
| Delivery run in Medellin | 45 min | 11h 01m |
| Door to door | 661 min | 11h 01m |
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 MDE is 11h 01m.
A courier who leaves Mexico City at 09:00 local is on the ground in Medellin at about 14:16 local and at the door by 16:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Medellin, the last useful departure from Mexico City is around 10:29 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. 19 of them join MEX to MDE.
| Connecting at | MEX to hub, flights a day | Hub to MDE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Salvador SAL | 2.43 | 1.14 | 2,957 | 5h 46m |
| San Jose SJO | 4.43 | 1.57 | 2,967 | 5h 47m |
| Panama City PTY | 8.14 | 9.43 | 2,954 | 5h 53m |
| Cali CLO | 0.71 | 9 | 3,341 | 6h 06m |
| Cartagena CTG | 1.14 | 17.86 | 3,193 | 6h 10m |
| Cancun CUN | 24.43 | 1.14 | 3,347 | 6h 16m |
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.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is San Salvador SAL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SAL the routing covers 2,957 km against the 2,952 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 46m 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 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, San Jose SJO at 5h 47m and Panama City PTY at 5h 53m 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 Medellin, Bogota BOG is 215 km away by great circle and carries 102 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 MDE. 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 Medellin 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 MDE 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 MDE airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into Colombia
- The route calculator
More pairs through MEX and MDE: Bogota to Medellin, Buenos Aires to Medellin, Medellin to Santiago, Medellin to Mexico City, Panama City to Medellin, Madrid to Mexico City, Atlanta to Mexico City, Mexico City to San Francisco.