The sector is held by American Airlines, Korean Air and Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DFW Dallas to GDL Guadalajara
Dallas Fort Worth, the United States, to Miguel Hidalgo Guadalajara, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,510 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 26m
- Door to door
- 9h 11m
What DFW to GDL looks like
The DFW to GDL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dallas DFW to Guadalajara GDL is a medium haul sector of 1,510 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,510 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 26m.
Dallas DFW is a major hub in the network held here, 287 scheduled destinations and 1,102.3 departures a day. Guadalajara GDL has 67 destinations and 162.3 departures a day.
Dallas carries about 6.8 times the departures of Guadalajara, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Guadalajara runs no time shift at all of Dallas in January and one hour 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 DFW to GDL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to GDL | 4.71 | 33 | American Airlines, Korean Air, Volaris |
| GDL to DFW | 4.29 | 30 | American Airlines, Volaris |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4.7 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 63 departures a week on DFW to GDL, 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 2h 26m block time on DFW to GDL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DFW | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DFW before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DFW to GDL in the air, estimated | 146 min | 6h 56m |
| Formalities at GDL | 90 min | 8h 26m |
| Delivery run in Guadalajara | 45 min | 9h 11m |
| Door to door | 551 min | 9h 11m |
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 DFW to GDL is 9h 11m.
A courier who leaves Dallas at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guadalajara at about 11:26 local and at the door by 13:41 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guadalajara, the last useful departure from Dallas is around 13:19 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. 31 of them join DFW to GDL.
| Connecting at | DFW to hub, flights a day | Hub to GDL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monterrey MTY | 7.29 | 11.43 | 1,515 | 4h 04m |
| Queretaro QRO | 3.86 | 0.71 | 1,726 | 4h 16m |
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 2 | 3.43 | 1,786 | 4h 19m |
| Houston IAH | 19.57 | 5.29 | 1,684 | 4h 28m |
| Mexico City MEX | 7.71 | 23 | 1,969 | 4h 52m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 3.29 | 3.43 | 2,371 | 5h 10m |
With 4.7 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
31 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 7.3 times a day.
Through MTY the routing covers 1,515 km against the 1,510 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 04m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Queretaro QRO at 4h 16m and Puerto Vallarta PVR at 4h 19m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dallas, Dallas DAL is 18 km away by great circle and carries 190 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Guadalajara, Leon and Silao BJX is 197 km away by great circle and carries 21 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Dallas to Guadalajara 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 DFW to GDL 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 DFW airport entry
- The GDL airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Madrid to Guadalajara
- The written lane, Shanghai to Guadalajara
- The route calculator
More pairs through DFW and GDL: Dallas to Atlanta, Dallas to Seattle, San Francisco to Dallas, Dallas to Boston, Detroit to Dallas, Chicago to Dallas, Dallas to Los Angeles, Dallas to Houston.