The sector is held by Aeromexico, Alrosa, Alaska Airlines, Masair, VivaAerobus and Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAX Los Angeles to GDL Guadalajara
Los Angeles International, the United States, to Miguel Hidalgo Guadalajara, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 10.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,106 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 11m
- Door to door
- 9h 56m
What LAX to GDL looks like
The LAX to GDL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Los Angeles LAX to Guadalajara GDL is a medium haul sector of 2,106 km by great circle, flown nonstop 10.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,106 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 11m.
Los Angeles LAX is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 826.3 departures a day. Guadalajara GDL has 67 destinations and 162.3 departures a day.
Los Angeles carries about 5.1 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 2 hours ahead of Los Angeles in January and one hour ahead 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 LAX to GDL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to GDL | 10.86 | 76 | Aeromexico, Alrosa, Alaska Airlines, Masair, VivaAerobus, Volaris |
| GDL to LAX | 8.86 | 62 | Aeromexico, Alaska Airlines, VivaAerobus, Volaris |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 10.9 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 138 departures a week on LAX 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 3h 11m block time on LAX 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 LAX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LAX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LAX to GDL in the air, estimated | 191 min | 7h 41m |
| Formalities at GDL | 90 min | 9h 11m |
| Delivery run in Guadalajara | 45 min | 9h 56m |
| Door to door | 596 min | 9h 56m |
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 LAX to GDL is 9h 56m.
A courier who leaves Los Angeles at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guadalajara at about 14:11 local and at the door by 16:26 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guadalajara, the last useful departure from Los Angeles is around 10:34 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. 33 of them join LAX to GDL.
| Connecting at | LAX to hub, flights a day | Hub to GDL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 2.29 | 3.43 | 2,165 | 4h 48m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 4.14 | 3.43 | 2,191 | 4h 56m |
| Phoenix PHX | 23.29 | 2.71 | 2,267 | 5h 15m |
| Monterrey MTY | 0.71 | 11.43 | 2,650 | 5h 31m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 27.71 | 3.14 | 2,458 | 5h 43m |
| Puebla PBC | 0.71 | 2.71 | 3,113 | 6h 05m |
With 10.9 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.
33 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 2,165 km against the 2,106 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 48m 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 37m 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 56m and Phoenix PHX at 5h 15m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Los Angeles, San Diego SAN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 123 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 Los Angeles 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 LAX 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.
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- The LAX airport entry
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- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Dubai to Los Angeles
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Sydney
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through LAX and GDL: Tijuana to Guadalajara, Guadalajara to Monterrey, Mexico City to Guadalajara, Seattle to Guadalajara, Atlanta to Guadalajara, Houston to Guadalajara, Chicago to Guadalajara, Mexico City to Guadalajara.