The sector is held by Aeromexico.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MTY Monterrey to NRT Tokyo
General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico, to Narita International, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 10,682 km
- Block, estimated
- 13h 22m
- Door to door
- 20h 07m
What MTY to NRT looks like
The MTY to NRT sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Monterrey MTY to Tokyo NRT is an ultra long sector of 10,682 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 10,682 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 13h 22m.
Monterrey MTY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 64 scheduled destinations and 159.4 departures a day. Tokyo NRT has 117 destinations and 361.5 departures a day.
Tokyo is 15 hours ahead of Monterrey all year.
The pair sits between the Americas and Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 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 NRT from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTY to NRT | 0.29 | 2 | Aeromexico |
| NRT to MTY | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Aeromexico, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg NRT to MTY carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
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 2 departures a week on MTY to NRT, 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 13h 22m block time on MTY to NRT. 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 NRT in the air, estimated | 802 min | 17h 52m |
| Formalities at NRT | 90 min | 19h 22m |
| Delivery run in Tokyo | 45 min | 20h 07m |
| Door to door | 1,207 min | 20h 07m |
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 NRT is 20h 07m.
A courier who leaves Monterrey at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tokyo at about 13:22 local and at the door by 15:37 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tokyo, nothing leaving Monterrey inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 20h 07m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 9 of them join MTY to NRT.
| Connecting at | MTY to hub, flights a day | Hub to NRT, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco SFO | 1.14 | 1.14 | 10,702 | 15h 20m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 1 | 5.86 | 10,734 | 15h 35m |
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 3.43 | 0.86 | 11,462 | 16h 01m |
| Houston IAH | 8.14 | 1.57 | 11,331 | 16h 04m |
| Mexico City MEX | 29.43 | 1.14 | 11,967 | 16h 51m |
| Chicago ORD | 1.16 | 4.57 | 12,193 | 17h 20m |
9 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is San Francisco SFO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SFO the routing covers 10,702 km against the 10,682 km nonstop track and takes about 15h 20m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 58m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Los Angeles LAX at 15h 35m and Puerto Vallarta PVR at 16h 01m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tokyo, Tokyo HND is 60 km away by great circle and carries 105 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Tokyo NRT is shut to scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Monterrey late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Tokyo NRT, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Monterrey later than about 18:38 local arrives at NRT after it has closed for the night, on the 13h 22m block time above.
Plan Monterrey to Tokyo 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 NRT 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 NRT airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into Japan
- 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 NRT: 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.