GUA Guatemala City

How deep the GUA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from GUA. This reads the same 26 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 17of the 26 destinations are flown by one airline
• 10destinations run less than once a day
• 5destinations have four or more departures a day
• 34.6%of the destinations name Avianca, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at GUA

16 airlines appear on the GUA board and they do not hold it evenly. Avianca is on 9 of the 26 destinations, 34.6 per cent of them, and on 3 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 26.6 of the 54.2 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is TAG on 6 destinations. 8 of the 16 airlines at GUA appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at GUA: one airline on 34.6 per cent of the destinations and the other 65.4 per cent spread across 15 airlines. A cancellation inside the Avianca network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 17 destinations Avianca does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the GUA board is daily

Of the 26 destinations, 16 are flown at least once a day and 10 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the GUA board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: GUA to San Francisco (SFO) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 29 of the 54.2 departures a day, 53.6 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves GUA is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Chicago ORD	the United States	United Airlines	1	3,057	plan this
New York JFK	the United States	Avianca	1	3,321	plan this
Orlando MCO	the United States	Frontier Airlines	1	1,809	plan this
San Francisco SFO	the United States	Avianca	1	4,048	plan this
Managua MGA	Nicaragua	Copa Airlines	3	544	plan this
Rionegro MDE	Colombia	Copa Airlines Colombia	3	1,897	plan this
Roatan Island RTB	Honduras	TAG	4	471	plan this
Belize City BZE	Belize	TAG	5	405	plan this

The eight destinations out of GUA where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable.

The way back from GUA

The desk holds the return direction for 22 of the 26 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into GUA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Atlanta (ATL) at 1.7 out a day against 1.1 back and Santa Clara (SAL) at 5.3 out a day against 3.9 back.

It runs the other way as well: Washington (IAD) files 2 a day back into GUA against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at GUA

GUA keeps America/Guatemala time, ten hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 23:00 at GUA, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

Where GUA turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Guatemala country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 2 airport pair pages that start or end at GUA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Guatemala City to Mexico City (MEX) and Guatemala City to Bogotá (BOG).

Eleven courier postings name GUA as the airport a courier here flies from: Guatemala City, Cobán and Quetzaltenango.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with GUA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 26 destinations above.