The sector is held by Silk Way West.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
KEF Reykjavik to NLU Mexico City
Keflavik International, Iceland, to Felipe Angeles International, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 7,381 km
- Block, estimated
- 9h 23m
- Door to door
- 16h 08m
What KEF to NLU looks like
The KEF to NLU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Reykjavik KEF to Mexico City NLU is a long haul sector of 7,381 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 7,381 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 9h 23m.
Reykjavik KEF is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 76 scheduled destinations and 99 departures a day. Mexico City NLU has 41 destinations and 83.4 departures a day.
Mexico City is 6 hours behind of Reykjavik all year.
The pair sits between the Americas and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 36 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on KEF to NLU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEF to NLU | 0.14 | 1 | Silk Way West |
| NLU to KEF | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Silk Way West, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg NLU to KEF carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once 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 1 departure a week on KEF to NLU, 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 9h 23m block time on KEF to NLU. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to KEF | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At KEF before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| KEF to NLU in the air, estimated | 563 min | 13h 53m |
| Formalities at NLU | 90 min | 15h 23m |
| Delivery run in Mexico City | 45 min | 16h 08m |
| Door to door | 968 min | 16h 08m |
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 KEF to NLU is 16h 08m.
A courier who leaves Reykjavik at 09:00 local is on the ground in Mexico City at about 12:23 local and at the door by 14:38 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Mexico City, the last useful departure from Reykjavik is around 12:22 local.
At 16h 08m 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. 2 of them join KEF to NLU.
| Connecting at | KEF to hub, flights a day | Hub to NLU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York JFK | 3.43 | 0.14 | 7,497 | 11h 32m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 3.57 | 0.14 | 11,920 | 17h 02m |
2 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is New York JFK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a week.
Through JFK the routing covers 7,497 km against the 7,381 km nonstop track and takes about 11h 32m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Mexico City, Mexico City MEX is 36 km away by great circle and carries 106 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Reykjavik to Mexico 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 KEF to NLU 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 KEF airport entry
- The NLU airport entry
- Hand carry into Iceland
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Mexico City
- The written lane, Dubai to Mexico City
- The written lane, Frankfurt to Mexico City
- The route calculator
More pairs through KEF and NLU: Reykjavik to Oslo, Helsinki to Reykjavik, Reykjavik to Vancouver, Derby and Nottingham to Reykjavik, Glasgow to Reykjavik, Mexico City to Guadalajara, Mexico City to Monterrey, Mexico City to Tijuana.