The sector is held by VivaAerobus and Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MTY Monterrey to PVR Puerto Vallarta
General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico, to Licenciado Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 773 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 38m
- Door to door
- 8h 23m
What MTY to PVR looks like
The MTY to PVR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Monterrey MTY to Puerto Vallarta PVR is a short sector of 773 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 773 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 38m.
Monterrey MTY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 64 scheduled destinations and 159.4 departures a day. Puerto Vallarta PVR has 35 destinations and 41.7 departures a day.
Monterrey carries about 3.8 times the departures of Puerto Vallarta, 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 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 MTY to PVR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTY to PVR | 3.43 | 24 | VivaAerobus, Volaris |
| PVR to MTY | 3.43 | 24 | VivaAerobus, Volaris |
Two carriers hold the sector, VivaAerobus and Volaris, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3.4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 48 departures a week on MTY 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 38m block time on MTY 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 MTY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MTY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MTY to PVR in the air, estimated | 98 min | 6h 08m |
| Formalities at PVR | 90 min | 7h 38m |
| Delivery run in Puerto Vallarta | 45 min | 8h 23m |
| Door to door | 503 min | 8h 23m |
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 PVR is 8h 23m.
A courier who leaves Monterrey at 09:00 local is on the ground in Puerto Vallarta at about 10:38 local and at the door by 12:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Puerto Vallarta, the last useful departure from Monterrey is around 14:07 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. 17 of them join MTY to PVR.
| Connecting at | MTY to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aguascalientes AGU | 1.71 | 0.57 | 830 | 3h 14m |
| Guadalajara GDL | 11.43 | 3.43 | 873 | 3h 17m |
| San Luis Potosi SLP | 2 | 0.71 | 881 | 3h 17m |
| Leon and Silao BJX | 5.29 | 1.71 | 944 | 3h 24m |
| Queretaro QRO | 6.29 | 1.14 | 1,101 | 3h 38m |
| Mexico City NLU | 2.14 | 2.86 | 1,338 | 3h 58m |
With 3.4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
17 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Aguascalientes AGU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through AGU the routing covers 830 km against the 773 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 14m 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 36m 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 3h 17m and San Luis Potosi SLP at 3h 17m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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 Monterrey 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 MTY 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 MTY airport entry
- The PVR 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 PVR: 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.