The sector is held by Aeromexico, VivaAerobus and Xpressair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NLU Mexico City to PVR Puerto Vallarta
Felipe Angeles International, Mexico, to Licenciado Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 659 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 28m
- Door to door
- 8h 13m
What NLU to PVR looks like
The NLU to PVR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Mexico City NLU to Puerto Vallarta PVR is a short sector of 659 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 659 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 28m.
Mexico City NLU is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 41 scheduled destinations and 83.4 departures a day. Puerto Vallarta PVR has 35 destinations and 41.7 departures a day.
Mexico City and Puerto Vallarta 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 NLU to PVR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NLU to PVR | 2.86 | 20 | Aeromexico, VivaAerobus, Xpressair |
| PVR to NLU | 0.57 | 4 | Xpressair |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: NLU to PVR runs about twice a day, the return runs 4 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 24 departures a week on NLU to PVR, 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 1h 28m block time on NLU to PVR. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to NLU | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NLU before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NLU to PVR in the air, estimated | 88 min | 5h 58m |
| Formalities at PVR | 90 min | 7h 28m |
| Delivery run in Puerto Vallarta | 45 min | 8h 13m |
| Door to door | 493 min | 8h 13m |
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 NLU to PVR is 8h 13m.
A courier who leaves Mexico City at 09:00 local is on the ground in Puerto Vallarta at about 10:28 local and at the door by 12:43 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Puerto Vallarta, the last useful departure from Mexico City is around 14:17 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. 7 of them join NLU to PVR.
| Connecting at | NLU to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalajara GDL | 8.43 | 3.43 | 660 | 2h 58m |
| Leon and Silao BJX | 2.14 | 1.71 | 686 | 3h 01m |
| Aguascalientes AGU | 1 | 0.57 | 732 | 3h 05m |
| San Luis Potosi SLP | 0.86 | 0.71 | 822 | 3h 12m |
| Monterrey MTY | 7.14 | 3.43 | 1,452 | 4h 08m |
| Tijuana TIJ | 4.29 | 3.86 | 4,039 | 7h 10m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at NLU in the afternoon actually flies on.
7 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Guadalajara GDL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.4 times a day.
Through GDL the routing covers 660 km against the 659 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 58m 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, Leon and Silao BJX at 3h 01m and Aguascalientes AGU at 3h 05m 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 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara GDL is 203 km away by great circle and carries 67 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Mexico City to Puerto Vallarta 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 NLU to PVR 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 NLU airport entry
- The PVR airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Mexico City
- The written lane, Dubai to Mexico City
- The written lane, Frankfurt to Mexico City
- The route calculator
More pairs through NLU and PVR: Mexico City to Guadalajara, Mexico City to Monterrey, Mexico City to Tijuana, Bogota to Mexico City, Leon and Silao to Mexico City, Miami to Mexico City, El Paso to Mexico City, Mexico City to Cancun.