The sector is held by VivaAerobus.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MTY Monterrey to SJO San Jose
General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico, to Juan Santamaria, Costa Rica. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,426 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 36m
- Door to door
- 10h 21m
What MTY to SJO looks like
The MTY to SJO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Monterrey MTY to San Jose SJO is a medium haul sector of 2,426 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,426 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 36m.
Monterrey MTY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 64 scheduled destinations and 159.4 departures a day. San Jose SJO has 35 destinations and 59.9 departures a day.
Monterrey carries about 2.7 times the departures of San Jose, 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 San Jose 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 SJO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTY to SJO | 0.29 | 2 | VivaAerobus |
| SJO to MTY | 0.29 | 2 | VivaAerobus |
One carrier holds the sector, VivaAerobus, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times 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 4.1 departures a week on MTY to SJO, 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 36m block time on MTY to SJO. 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 SJO in the air, estimated | 216 min | 8h 06m |
| Formalities at SJO | 90 min | 9h 36m |
| Delivery run in San Jose | 45 min | 10h 21m |
| Door to door | 621 min | 10h 21m |
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 SJO is 10h 21m.
A courier who leaves Monterrey at 09:00 local is on the ground in San Jose at about 12:36 local and at the door by 14:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in San Jose, the last useful departure from Monterrey is around 12:09 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. 16 of them join MTY to SJO.
| Connecting at | MTY to hub, flights a day | Hub to SJO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancun CUN | 15 | 1.14 | 2,709 | 5h 28m |
| Mexico City MEX | 29.43 | 4.43 | 2,623 | 5h 44m |
| Houston IAH | 8.14 | 3.43 | 3,167 | 6h 25m |
| Panama City PTY | 1.29 | 12 | 3,409 | 6h 28m |
| Dallas DFW | 6.99 | 1.14 | 3,711 | 7h 15m |
| Orlando MCO | 0.86 | 2.29 | 3,954 | 7h 18m |
16 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 about once a day.
Through CUN the routing covers 2,709 km against the 2,426 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 28m 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 52m 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 5h 44m and Houston IAH at 6h 25m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Monterrey to San Jose 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 SJO 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 SJO airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into Costa Rica
- 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 SJO: 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.