The sector is held by GlobalX Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ELP El Paso to GUA Guatemala City
El Paso International, the United States, to La Aurora International, Guatemala. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,502 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 42m
- Door to door
- 10h 27m
What ELP to GUA looks like
The ELP to GUA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
El Paso ELP to Guatemala City GUA is a medium haul sector of 2,502 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,502 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 42m.
El Paso ELP is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 77 scheduled destinations and 81.6 departures a day. Guatemala City GUA has 26 destinations and 54.2 departures a day.
Guatemala City runs one hour ahead of El Paso in January and no time shift at all 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 ELP to GUA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELP to GUA | 0.43 | 3 | GlobalX Airlines |
| GUA to ELP | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, GlobalX Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg GUA to ELP carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 3 departures a week on ELP to GUA, 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 3h 42m block time on ELP to GUA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ELP | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ELP before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ELP to GUA in the air, estimated | 222 min | 8h 12m |
| Formalities at GUA | 90 min | 9h 42m |
| Delivery run in Guatemala City | 45 min | 10h 27m |
| Door to door | 627 min | 10h 27m |
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 ELP to GUA is 10h 27m.
A courier who leaves El Paso at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guatemala City at about 13:42 local and at the door by 15:57 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guatemala City, the last useful departure from El Paso is around 11:03 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. 9 of them join ELP to GUA.
| Connecting at | ELP to hub, flights a day | Hub to GUA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston IAH | 7.29 | 3.29 | 2,854 | 5h 54m |
| Dallas DFW | 8.29 | 1.14 | 3,025 | 6h 22m |
| Atlanta ATL | 2.29 | 1.14 | 4,266 | 7h 57m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 4.14 | 5 | 4,679 | 8h 13m |
9 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Houston IAH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.3 times a day.
Through IAH the routing covers 2,854 km against the 2,502 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 54m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 12m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dallas DFW at 6h 22m and Atlanta ATL at 7h 57m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Guatemala City, San Salvador SAL is 203 km away by great circle and carries 29 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan El Paso to Guatemala City 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 ELP to GUA 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 ELP airport entry
- The GUA airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Guatemala
- The written lane, El Paso to Ciudad Juarez
- The route calculator
More pairs through ELP and GUA: Atlanta to El Paso, El Paso to Phoenix, El Paso to Houston, El Paso to Los Angeles, Seattle to El Paso, El Paso to Chicago, San Diego to El Paso, Dallas to El Paso.