The sector is held by Sun Country Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MSP Minneapolis to MTY Monterrey
Minneapolis St Paul, the United States, to General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 2,212 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 19m
- Door to door
- 10h 04m
What MSP to MTY looks like
The MSP to MTY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Minneapolis MSP to Monterrey MTY is a medium haul sector of 2,212 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,212 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 19m.
Minneapolis MSP is a major hub in the network held here, 179 scheduled destinations and 475.9 departures a day. Monterrey MTY has 64 destinations and 159.4 departures a day.
Minneapolis carries about 3 times the departures of Monterrey, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Monterrey runs no time shift at all of Minneapolis 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 MSP to MTY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSP to MTY | 0.14 | 1 | Sun Country Airlines |
| MTY to MSP | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Sun Country Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg MTY to MSP carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 1 departure a week on MSP to MTY, 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 19m block time on MSP to MTY. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MSP | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MSP before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MSP to MTY in the air, estimated | 199 min | 7h 49m |
| Formalities at MTY | 90 min | 9h 19m |
| Delivery run in Monterrey | 45 min | 10h 04m |
| Door to door | 604 min | 10h 04m |
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 MSP to MTY is 10h 04m.
A courier who leaves Minneapolis at 09:00 local is on the ground in Monterrey at about 12:19 local and at the door by 14:34 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Monterrey, the last useful departure from Minneapolis is around 12:26 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. 20 of them join MSP to MTY.
| Connecting at | MSP to hub, flights a day | Hub to MTY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas DFW | 10.43 | 7.29 | 2,218 | 5h 20m |
| Houston IAH | 6.43 | 8 | 2,329 | 5h 21m |
| Chicago ORD | 17.29 | 1.57 | 2,656 | 5h 59m |
| Detroit DTW | 6.29 | 0.71 | 3,231 | 6h 23m |
| Atlanta ATL | 11.57 | 1.86 | 3,205 | 6h 36m |
| Phoenix PHX | 9.14 | 0.86 | 3,482 | 6h 42m |
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Dallas DFW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 7.3 times a day.
Through DFW the routing covers 2,218 km against the 2,212 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 20m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 01m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Houston IAH at 5h 21m and Chicago ORD at 5h 59m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Minneapolis to Monterrey 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 MSP to MTY 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 MSP airport entry
- The MTY airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Monterrey
- The written lane, Detroit to Monterrey
- The written lane, Frankfurt to Monterrey
- The route calculator
More pairs through MSP and MTY: Seattle to Minneapolis, Minneapolis to Boston, Minneapolis to Detroit, Phoenix to Minneapolis, Houston to Minneapolis, San Diego to Minneapolis, Charlotte to Minneapolis, Vancouver to Minneapolis.