The sector is held by VivaAerobus and Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
GDL Guadalajara to PVR Puerto Vallarta
Miguel Hidalgo Guadalajara, Mexico, to Licenciado Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 203 km
- Block, estimated
- 48 min
- Door to door
- 7h 33m
What GDL to PVR looks like
The GDL to PVR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Guadalajara GDL to Puerto Vallarta PVR is a short sector of 203 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 203 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 48 min.
Guadalajara GDL is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 67 scheduled destinations and 162.3 departures a day. Puerto Vallarta PVR has 35 destinations and 41.7 departures a day.
Guadalajara carries about 3.9 times the departures of Puerto Vallarta, 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 and Puerto Vallarta keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 PVR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDL to PVR | 3.43 | 24 | VivaAerobus, Volaris |
| PVR to GDL | 3.43 | 24 | VivaAerobus, Volaris |
Two carriers hold the sector, VivaAerobus and Volaris, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3.4 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 48 departures a week on GDL to PVR, 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 48 min block time on GDL to PVR. 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 PVR in the air, estimated | 48 min | 5h 18m |
| Formalities at PVR | 90 min | 6h 48m |
| Delivery run in Puerto Vallarta | 45 min | 7h 33m |
| Door to door | 453 min | 7h 33m |
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 PVR is 7h 33m.
A courier who leaves Guadalajara at 09:00 local is on the ground in Puerto Vallarta at about 09:48 local and at the door by 12:03 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Puerto Vallarta, the last useful departure from Guadalajara is around 14:57 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. 19 of them join GDL to PVR.
| Connecting at | GDL to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queretaro QRO | 0.71 | 1.14 | 852 | 3h 16m |
| Mexico City NLU | 6.29 | 2.86 | 1,116 | 3h 38m |
| Puebla PBC | 2.71 | 0.57 | 1,277 | 3h 53m |
| Mexico City MEX | 18.86 | 5.29 | 1,119 | 3h 54m |
| Monterrey MTY | 11.57 | 3.43 | 1,443 | 4h 07m |
| Houston IAH | 4.57 | 1.14 | 2,757 | 5h 46m |
With 3.4 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.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Queretaro QRO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through QRO the routing covers 852 km against the 203 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 16m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 28m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Mexico City NLU at 3h 38m and Puebla PBC at 3h 53m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 203 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 3h 10m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
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 Puerto Vallarta 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 PVR 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 PVR airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Madrid to Guadalajara
- The written lane, Shanghai to Guadalajara
- The route calculator
More pairs through GDL and PVR: 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.