The sector is held by Copa Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MTY Monterrey to PTY Panama City
General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico, to Tocumen International, Panama. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,870 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 10m
- Door to door
- 10h 55m
What MTY to PTY looks like
The MTY to PTY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Monterrey MTY to Panama City PTY is a medium haul sector of 2,870 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,870 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 10m.
Monterrey MTY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 64 scheduled destinations and 159.4 departures a day. Panama City PTY has 89 destinations and 246.3 departures a day.
Panama City is one hour ahead 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 PTY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTY to PTY | 1.29 | 9 | Copa Airlines |
| PTY to MTY | 1.29 | 9 | Copa Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Copa Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 18.1 departures a week on MTY to PTY, 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 10m block time on MTY to PTY. 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 PTY in the air, estimated | 250 min | 8h 40m |
| Formalities at PTY | 90 min | 10h 10m |
| Delivery run in Panama City | 45 min | 10h 55m |
| Door to door | 655 min | 10h 55m |
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 PTY is 10h 55m.
A courier who leaves Monterrey at 09:00 local is on the ground in Panama City at about 14:10 local and at the door by 16:25 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Panama City, the last useful departure from Monterrey is around 10:35 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 MTY to PTY.
| Connecting at | MTY to hub, flights a day | Hub to PTY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancun CUN | 15 | 6.43 | 3,002 | 5h 50m |
| Mexico City MEX | 29.43 | 8.14 | 3,124 | 6h 23m |
| Guadalajara GDL | 11.43 | 1.29 | 3,535 | 6h 39m |
| Houston IAH | 8.14 | 2.43 | 3,518 | 6h 52m |
| Miami MIA | 1.14 | 9.86 | 3,844 | 7h 25m |
| Orlando MCO | 0.86 | 7.71 | 4,044 | 7h 25m |
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.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Cancun CUN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6.4 times a day.
Through CUN the routing covers 3,002 km against the 2,870 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 50m 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 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Mexico City MEX at 6h 23m and Guadalajara GDL at 6h 39m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Monterrey to Panama City 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 PTY 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 PTY airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into Panama
- 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 PTY: 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.