At the cruise speed this site models for 2,087 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 10m.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TIJ Tijuana to HOU Houston
Tijuana International, Mexico, to William P Hobby, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 2,087 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 10m
- Door to door
- 9h 55m
What TIJ to HOU looks like
The TIJ to HOU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tijuana TIJ to Houston HOU is a medium haul sector of 2,087 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
Tijuana TIJ is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 45 scheduled destinations and 115.4 departures a day. Houston HOU has 145 destinations and 205.5 departures a day.
Houston is 2 hours ahead of Tijuana 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 TIJ to HOU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIJ to HOU | 0.14 | 1 | none held |
| HOU to TIJ | 0 | 0 | none held |
No operating carrier is recorded on the nonstop, which is why the connecting routings below are the plan for TIJ to HOU rather than the fallback.
The return leg HOU to TIJ 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 TIJ to HOU, 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 10m block time on TIJ to HOU. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TIJ | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TIJ before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TIJ to HOU in the air, estimated | 190 min | 7h 40m |
| Formalities at HOU | 90 min | 9h 10m |
| Delivery run in Houston | 45 min | 9h 55m |
| Door to door | 595 min | 9h 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 TIJ to HOU is 9h 55m.
A courier who leaves Tijuana at 09:00 local is on the ground in Houston 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 Houston, the last useful departure from Tijuana 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. 5 of them join TIJ to HOU.
| Connecting at | TIJ to hub, flights a day | Hub to HOU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Cabos SJD | 4.57 | 2 | 2,871 | 5h 40m |
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 3.86 | 1.14 | 3,170 | 6h 03m |
| Cancun CUN | 2.14 | 3.43 | 4,510 | 7h 32m |
5 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Los Cabos SJD, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through SJD the routing covers 2,871 km against the 2,087 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 40m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 30m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Puerto Vallarta PVR at 6h 03m and Cancun CUN at 7h 32m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tijuana, San Diego SAN is 30 km away by great circle and carries 123 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Houston, Houston IAH is 38 km away by great circle and carries 197 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Tijuana to Houston 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 TIJ to HOU 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 TIJ airport entry
- The HOU airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Tijuana
- The written lane, San Diego to Tijuana
- The route calculator
More pairs through TIJ and HOU: Houston to Phoenix, San Diego to Houston, El Paso to Houston, Houston to Dallas, Houston to Indianapolis, Houston to Las Vegas, Birmingham to Houston, Houston to Nashville.