The sector is held by American Airlines and Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
GDL Guadalajara to PHX Phoenix
Miguel Hidalgo Guadalajara, Mexico, to Phoenix Sky Harbor, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,673 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 38m
- Door to door
- 9h 23m
What GDL to PHX looks like
The GDL to PHX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Guadalajara GDL to Phoenix PHX is a medium haul sector of 1,673 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,673 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 38m.
Guadalajara GDL is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 67 scheduled destinations and 162.3 departures a day. Phoenix PHX has 172 destinations and 603.4 departures a day.
Phoenix carries about 3.7 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.
Phoenix is one hour behind of Guadalajara all year.
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 GDL to PHX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDL to PHX | 2.57 | 18 | American Airlines, Volaris |
| PHX to GDL | 2.71 | 19 | American Airlines, Volaris |
Two carriers hold the sector, American Airlines and Volaris, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 37 departures a week on GDL 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 2h 38m block time on GDL 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 GDL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At GDL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| GDL to PHX in the air, estimated | 158 min | 7h 08m |
| Formalities at PHX | 90 min | 8h 38m |
| Delivery run in Phoenix | 45 min | 9h 23m |
| Door to door | 563 min | 9h 23m |
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 GDL to PHX is 9h 23m.
A courier who leaves Guadalajara at 09:00 local is on the ground in Phoenix at about 10:38 local and at the door by 12:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Phoenix, the last useful departure from Guadalajara is around 14:07 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. 24 of them join GDL to PHX.
| Connecting at | GDL to hub, flights a day | Hub to PHX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 3.43 | 2.57 | 1,770 | 4h 18m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 3.43 | 3 | 1,888 | 4h 33m |
| Monterrey MTY | 11.57 | 0.86 | 2,100 | 4h 49m |
| Mexico City MEX | 18.86 | 2.29 | 2,476 | 5h 31m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 3 | 20.14 | 2,489 | 5h 45m |
| Houston IAH | 4.57 | 7.57 | 2,943 | 6h 00m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at GDL in the afternoon actually flies on.
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Puerto Vallarta PVR, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through PVR the routing covers 1,770 km against the 1,673 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 18m 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 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Los Cabos SJD at 4h 33m and Monterrey MTY at 4h 49m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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 Guadalajara 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 GDL 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 GDL airport entry
- The PHX airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Madrid to Guadalajara
- The written lane, Shanghai to Guadalajara
- The written lane, Phoenix to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through GDL and PHX: Los Angeles to Guadalajara, Tijuana to Guadalajara, Guadalajara to Monterrey, Mexico City to Guadalajara, Seattle to Guadalajara, Atlanta to Guadalajara, Houston to Guadalajara, Chicago to Guadalajara.