At the cruise speed this site models for 2,072 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 09m.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TIJ Tijuana to IAH Houston
Tijuana International, Mexico, to George Bush Intercontinental, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,072 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 09m
- Door to door
- 9h 54m
What TIJ to IAH looks like
The TIJ to IAH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tijuana TIJ to Houston IAH is a medium haul sector of 2,072 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
Tijuana TIJ is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 45 scheduled destinations and 115.4 departures a day. Houston IAH has 197 destinations and 641 departures a day.
Houston carries about 5.6 times the departures of Tijuana, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
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 IAH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIJ to IAH | 0.29 | 2 | none held |
| IAH 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 IAH rather than the fallback.
The return leg IAH to TIJ 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 TIJ to IAH, 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 09m block time on TIJ to IAH. 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 IAH in the air, estimated | 189 min | 7h 39m |
| Formalities at IAH | 90 min | 9h 09m |
| Delivery run in Houston | 45 min | 9h 54m |
| Door to door | 594 min | 9h 54m |
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 IAH is 9h 54m.
A courier who leaves Tijuana at 09:00 local is on the ground in Houston at about 14:09 local and at the door by 16:24 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Houston, the last useful departure from Tijuana is around 10:36 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. 14 of them join TIJ to IAH.
| Connecting at | TIJ to hub, flights a day | Hub to IAH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monterrey MTY | 4.71 | 8.14 | 2,461 | 5h 16m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 4.57 | 2.29 | 2,880 | 5h 41m |
| San Luis Potosi SLP | 1.14 | 2.57 | 2,973 | 5h 47m |
| Aguascalientes AGU | 2.57 | 2.29 | 3,035 | 5h 52m |
| Leon and Silao BJX | 5.57 | 4 | 3,173 | 6h 03m |
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 3.86 | 1.14 | 3,192 | 6h 05m |
14 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Monterrey MTY, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.7 times a day.
Through MTY the routing covers 2,461 km against the 2,072 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 16m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 07m 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 Cabos SJD at 5h 41m and San Luis Potosi SLP at 5h 47m 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 HOU is 38 km away by great circle and carries 145 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 IAH 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 IAH 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 written lane, Doha to Houston
- The route calculator
More pairs through TIJ and IAH: Atlanta to Houston, San Francisco to Houston, Chicago to Houston, Houston to Boston, Seattle to Houston, Frankfurt to Houston, Detroit to Houston, Amsterdam to Houston.