The sector is held by VivaAerobus.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MTY Monterrey to SJD Los Cabos
General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico, to Los Cabos International, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,016 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 48m
- Door to door
- 8h 33m
What MTY to SJD looks like
The MTY to SJD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Monterrey MTY to Los Cabos SJD is a short sector of 1,016 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,016 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 48m.
Monterrey MTY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 64 scheduled destinations and 159.4 departures a day. Los Cabos SJD has 38 destinations and 51.4 departures a day.
Monterrey carries about 3.1 times the departures of Los Cabos, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Los Cabos is one hour behind of Monterrey 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 MTY to SJD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTY to SJD | 1.57 | 11 | VivaAerobus |
| SJD to MTY | 1.57 | 11 | VivaAerobus |
One carrier holds the sector, VivaAerobus, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 22 departures a week on MTY to SJD, 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 48m block time on MTY to SJD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MTY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MTY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MTY to SJD in the air, estimated | 108 min | 6h 18m |
| Formalities at SJD | 90 min | 7h 48m |
| Delivery run in Los Cabos | 45 min | 8h 33m |
| Door to door | 513 min | 8h 33m |
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 MTY to SJD is 8h 33m.
A courier who leaves Monterrey at 09:00 local is on the ground in Los Cabos at about 09:48 local and at the door by 12:03 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Los Cabos, the last useful departure from Monterrey is around 14:57 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. 18 of them join MTY to SJD.
| Connecting at | MTY to hub, flights a day | Hub to SJD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leon and Silao BJX | 5.29 | 0.71 | 1,432 | 3h 57m |
| Guadalajara GDL | 11.43 | 3.43 | 1,393 | 4h 03m |
| Mexico City NLU | 2.14 | 2.57 | 1,849 | 4h 30m |
| Puebla PBC | 2.29 | 0.57 | 2,014 | 4h 43m |
| Mexico City MEX | 29.43 | 8.14 | 1,891 | 4h 48m |
| Houston IAH | 8.14 | 2.29 | 2,279 | 5h 17m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at MTY in the afternoon actually flies on.
18 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Leon and Silao BJX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through BJX the routing covers 1,432 km against the 1,016 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 57m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 09m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Guadalajara GDL at 4h 03m and Mexico City NLU at 4h 30m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Monterrey to Los Cabos 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 MTY to SJD 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 MTY airport entry
- The SJD airport entry
- 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 MTY and SJD: Atlanta to Monterrey, Mexico City to Monterrey, Guadalajara to Monterrey, San Francisco to Monterrey, Mexico City to Monterrey, Chicago to Monterrey, Tijuana to Monterrey, Monterrey to Queretaro.