Volaris scores 3.3 out of 10: the plain average of the measures below, rounded to one decimal. Each measure is an editorial assessment of the published facts.
What to watch
- On-time rate sits at just 31.0%
- Average delay runs 30.8 minutes per flight
- Zero fare gives personal item only, no checked bag
- Carry-on and seat selection both cost extra fees
The editorial take
- Strongest on
- Cancellations are rare, recorded at 0.0% in the operator data.
- Held back by
- An on-time rate of just 31.0% and average delays of 30.8 minutes.
- Which cabin
- Plus fare suits travellers wanting a checked bag and changes; Zero fits only light, flexible packers.
4 measures, scored the same way for every airline we ticket.
Reliability & operations3/10
The operator-supplied on-time rate sits at 31.0%, with an average delay of 30.8 minutes, well below the 65% floor for this band even though cancellations are recorded at 0.0%. A fleet averaging 123.9 years across 100 aircraft adds no offsetting confidence.
Source: research
Comfort & experience3/10
Seat pitch runs 28.0in with a width of 18.0in and just 2.3in of recline, and the single-cabin setup skips meal service (economy_meal_service: False). Zero fare gives only a personal item, so comfort depends on which fare you buy.
Sources: Volaris baggage policy (English)
Value & network4/10
Fees stack up fast: a first checked bag can run up to $180 USD internationally, a Premium+ seat up to $1,560 MXN, and even carry-on bags cost extra on Zero and Basic fares. The altitude by Volaris programme exists but has no published tier or partner detail.
Sources: Volaris additional service fees schedule (PDF) · altitude by Volaris loyalty programme · Volaris check-in page
Professional airline rating3/10
No named ratings body or star score is on record for Volaris, and no awards are listed in the research. Against a wider network of 69 destinations and 145 fleet aircraft cited elsewhere, the absence of any independent quality benchmark keeps this measure low.
Source: research
The published ratings and awards behind this score, each from the body that issued it.
What else can cost you
- First checked bag, domestic Mexico, at booking
- Up to $1,764 MXN
- First checked bag, international, at booking
- Up to $180 USD
- Carry-on bag (Zero and Basic fares), domestic, at booking
- Up to $1,100 MXN
- Premium+ seat (rows 1–2), domestic
- Up to $1,560 MXN
- Standard seat (rear section), domestic
- Up to $570 MXN
- Pet in cabin, domestic
- Up to $1,650 MXN
- Pet as checked baggage, domestic
- Up to $1,750 MXN
- Excess weight, checked bag 16–25 kg, domestic
- Up to $1,200 MXN
- Hold your flight up to 72 hours
- Up to $139 MXN
- v.club Individual membership, annual
- $449 MXN
Charges are set and collected by Volaris, not by Laters.com, and vary by route and fare type.
How the score is built
- 4 measures, each scored out of 10
- The headline is the plain average of those measures, computed in the open
- Each measure is an editorial assessment based on the published facts and sources in the breakdown
- No airline pays to be rated, and no placement is sold
What we deliberately left out
- Safety. It is not a marketing metric and we will not rank carriers on it.
- Cancellation rate and fleet age. Omitted rather than estimated, until a sourced field exists for every airline.
- Any sub-metric we cannot attribute. An unsourced measure is dropped, not guessed.
- Blended third-party scores that mix in inputs we have already rejected elsewhere on this page.
The full method, measure by measure, is on how we score airlines.

