The sector is held by American Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CLE Cleveland to PHX Phoenix
Cleveland Hopkins, the United States, to Phoenix Sky Harbor, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,791 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 04m
- Door to door
- 10h 49m
What CLE to PHX looks like
The CLE to PHX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cleveland CLE to Phoenix PHX is a medium haul sector of 2,791 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,791 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 04m.
Cleveland CLE is a large airport in the network held here, 113 scheduled destinations and 163.5 departures a day. Phoenix PHX has 172 destinations and 603.4 departures a day.
Phoenix carries about 3.7 times the departures of Cleveland, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Phoenix runs 2 hours behind of Cleveland in January and 3 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 CLE to PHX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLE to PHX | 2.57 | 18 | American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
| PHX to CLE | 2.43 | 17 | American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 35 departures a week on CLE to PHX, 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 4h 04m block time on CLE to PHX. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CLE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CLE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CLE to PHX in the air, estimated | 244 min | 8h 34m |
| Formalities at PHX | 90 min | 10h 04m |
| Delivery run in Phoenix | 45 min | 10h 49m |
| Door to door | 649 min | 10h 49m |
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 CLE to PHX is 10h 49m.
A courier who leaves Cleveland at 09:00 local is on the ground in Phoenix at about 11:04 local and at the door by 13:19 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Phoenix, the last useful departure from Cleveland is around 13:41 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. 40 of them join CLE to PHX.
| Connecting at | CLE to hub, flights a day | Hub to PHX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit DTW | 6 | 5.86 | 2,837 | 5h 55m |
| Columbus CMH | 1.29 | 2.43 | 2,863 | 5h 57m |
| St Louis STL | 2.43 | 5.43 | 2,810 | 5h 59m |
| Minneapolis MSP | 3.86 | 9.14 | 3,051 | 6h 09m |
| Chicago MDW | 4.57 | 7.14 | 2,812 | 6h 11m |
| Chicago ORD | 17.29 | 16.71 | 2,820 | 6h 12m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CLE in the afternoon actually flies on.
40 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Detroit DTW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.9 times a day.
Through DTW the routing covers 2,837 km against the 2,791 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 55m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Columbus CMH at 5h 57m and St Louis STL at 5h 59m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Cleveland, Detroit DTW is 153 km away by great circle and carries 147 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Cleveland to Phoenix 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 CLE to PHX 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 CLE airport entry
- The PHX airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Phoenix to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through CLE and PHX: Detroit to Cleveland, Cleveland to Charlotte, Cleveland to New York, Cleveland to Philadelphia, Cleveland to Washington DC, Indianapolis to Cleveland, Fort Lauderdale to Cleveland, Cleveland to Chicago.