The sector is held by American Airlines, ARINC and Frontier Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAS Las Vegas to PHL Philadelphia
Harry Reid International, the United States, to Philadelphia International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 3,494 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 43m
- Door to door
- 11h 28m
What LAS to PHL looks like
The LAS to PHL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Las Vegas LAS to Philadelphia PHL is a medium haul sector of 3,494 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,494 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 43m.
Las Vegas LAS is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 642 departures a day. Philadelphia PHL has 171 destinations and 527.5 departures a day.
Philadelphia is 3 hours ahead of Las Vegas 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 LAS to PHL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAS to PHL | 5.43 | 38 | American Airlines, ARINC, Frontier Airlines |
| PHL to LAS | 5.14 | 36 | American Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 5.4 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 74 departures a week on LAS to PHL, 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 43m block time on LAS to PHL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LAS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LAS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LAS to PHL in the air, estimated | 283 min | 9h 13m |
| Formalities at PHL | 90 min | 10h 43m |
| Delivery run in Philadelphia | 45 min | 11h 28m |
| Door to door | 688 min | 11h 28m |
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 LAS to PHL is 11h 28m.
A courier who leaves Las Vegas at 09:00 local is on the ground in Philadelphia at about 16:43 local and at the door by 18:58 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Philadelphia, the last useful departure from Las Vegas is around 08:02 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. 48 of them join LAS to PHL.
| Connecting at | LAS to hub, flights a day | Hub to PHL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City MCI | 7 | 3.14 | 3,496 | 6h 28m |
| Milwaukee MKE | 3.29 | 3.29 | 3,555 | 6h 33m |
| Washington DC DCA | 2.43 | 2.14 | 3,546 | 6h 34m |
| Pittsburgh PIT | 1.43 | 6.86 | 3,497 | 6h 35m |
| Memphis MEM | 1.29 | 2.29 | 3,679 | 6h 42m |
| Indianapolis IND | 4.43 | 6.14 | 3,497 | 6h 43m |
With 5.4 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.
48 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kansas City MCI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.1 times a day.
Through MCI the routing covers 3,496 km against the 3,494 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 28m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Milwaukee MKE at 6h 33m and Washington DC DCA at 6h 34m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Philadelphia, Newark EWR is 129 km away by great circle and carries 201 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Las Vegas to Philadelphia 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 LAS to PHL 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.
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