Puerto Vallarta Airport (PVR): terminals, flights

Aeropuerto Internacional Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (IATA: PVR, ICAO: MMPR) is a network point for Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Our catalogue shows 2 departing routes, with the airlines, frequencies and lowest peso (MXN) fares listed below.

Airport facts

PVR carries 2 routes and 4 airlines in our catalogue, totalling 35 weekly departures. Aeropuerto Internacional Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (ICAO MMPR) serves Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in the America/Mexico_City zone (UTC−6 in July). Its coordinates (20.6801, -105.254) are the basis of every distance on this site.

• IATA: PVR
• ICAO: MMPR
• City: Puerto Vallarta
• Country: Mexico
• Time zone: America/Mexico_City
• Coordinates: 20.6801, -105.254
• Airlines at the airport: 4

Coordinates, and why we publish them. 20.6801, -105.254 is the position from which every great-circle distance on this site is computed, including the ones that set the EU261 compensation band. It is not the distance the aircraft flies — that follows airways and diversions — but the geodesic measure the regulations use. Publishing it lets anyone recompute the figures on these pages.

Base of Aeromexico, Volaris. An airline basing here means aircraft and crews overnighting at the airport: more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto, and more early departures. The flip side is that at an airport dominated by one carrier the competitive pressure on fares is weaker than where several compete.

Airlines at PVR

4 catalogued airlines operate routes to or from PVR: 2 full-service and 2 low-cost, with checked allowance from 0 to 25 kg. Alliances present: SkyTeam, oneworld. They cover 2 catalogued routes and 35 weekly departures. The table below lists each operator with its type, alliance and checked allowance.

Carriers in our catalogue operating routes to or from this airport, with type, alliance and economy baggage allowance:

What does apply on departure from Mexico. Mexico’s Ley de Aviación Civil (Art. 47 Bis), enforced by AFAC and PROFECO, covers flights taking off from Mexican territory from PVR regardless of the airline’s nationality: a delay over 4 hours attributable to the carrier entitles you to at least 25% of the ticket price, and from the first hour the airline owes assistance that escalates with duration. Keep the boarding pass and the purchase receipt — a claim stands on those two documents.

Routes from Puerto Vallarta (PVR)

Our catalogue lists 2 routes from PVR, totalling 35 weekly departures and spanning 1,583 to 1,962 km. The busiest is PVR-LAX at ~21 flights a week; 0 of them carry a cached fare, spread across 1 audience profiles. Every row in this section comes from that same corridor catalogue, not from a live search.

What traffic PVR moves. By audience profile, the routes catalogued here split as: Mexico-US paisano corridor (2). That mix explains the airport’s seasonality: family corridors spike in December and Holy Week, leisure ones follow the holiday calendar, and regional ones stay flatter across the year.

Why some rows have no fare. Of the 2 routes listed, 0 returned a price on the collector’s last pass and the rest show a dash. A dash means the automated query got no result for that pair — not that the route is suspended or expensive. For those pairs the reference price comes from the live search, which queries current inventory.

Connection tips

PVR concentrates 35 catalogued weekly departures across 4 airlines, in the America/Mexico_City zone. That density is what decides how much slack to leave on a connection: the more of its own services the airline runs here, the more same-day rebooking options exist.

Aeropuerto Internacional Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz runs on the America/Mexico_City time zone; factor the offset from your origin city when planning connections and transfers. The busiest route at PVR is PVR-LAX (~21 flights a week). Book 4–8 weeks ahead for the busiest routes to/from Puerto Vallarta; fares climb in December, Holy Week and summer. Each route guide above shows month-by-month seasonality and the lowest peso fare. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

The cheap connection that loses the checked bag. Two separate tickets are not one itinerary: there is no interline agreement, the bag is not checked through to the final destination, and if the first flight lands late the second airline owes you nothing — it sold a different flight. The apparent saving evaporates the moment you buy a same-day replacement. On a single ticket, rebooking and the bag transfer are the carrier’s problem, not yours.

Other airports in Mexico

12 further Mexico airports appear in our catalogue besides PVR, with 109 routes between them. The best-connected is Ciudad de México (MEX) with 44 routes, and the nearest sits ~203 km great-circle from PVR. The 12 distances in this section are measured from each airport’s own coordinates.

Other airports in the same country in our catalogue, with the number of catalogued routes — useful if you need an alternative gateway:

Great-circle distance is not the transfer. The figures in the table are geodesic, computed from each airport’s coordinates; the real journey depends on whether road, rail or a domestic flight exists, and on what they cost. An airport 300 km away can be more accessible than one at 120 km if the first has a direct motorway and the second does not. Use them to rule out, not to plan.

FAQ

The 7 questions on this record are answered from catalogue figures for PVR: routes and weekly frequencies, minimum fares observed by the collector, checked-baggage allowances and the rights regime that applies on each leg. No answer adds data that is not in those sources.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for Puerto Vallarta airport? The IATA code is PVR and the ICAO code is MMPR. Aeropuerto Internacional Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz serves Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Which airlines operate at PVR? Airlines on our catalogued routes at PVR: Aeromexico, American Airlines, Volaris, Southwest Airlines.

How many routes are there from Puerto Vallarta (PVR)? Our catalogue lists 2 departing routes at PVR — see the tables above.

What time zone is PVR in? PVR operates in the America/Mexico_City time zone.

How many weekly departures does PVR have in this catalogue? Across the catalogued routes touching PVR we count 35 weekly departures over 4 airlines and 2 routes. That is the coverage relevant to Mexican travellers, not the airport’s full directory.

What is the longest catalogued route at PVR? Catalogued routes at PVR span 1,583 to 1,962 km great-circle, computed from each airport’s coordinates. That distance drives aircraft type and the applicable compensation band on European sectors.

Which airlines are based at PVR? Aeromexico, Volaris run PVR as a base. An airline based here keeps aircraft and crews overnight, so it has more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto the same day.

Related

• PVR-LAX flights
• Mexico airports

Published by FlightsMX Editorial Team. Last verified: May 2026.