The sector is held by American Airlines, Contour Aviation, Denver Air Connection, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PHX Phoenix to DEN Denver
Phoenix Sky Harbor, the United States, to Denver International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 25.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 969 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 44m
- Door to door
- 8h 29m
What PHX to DEN looks like
The PHX to DEN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Phoenix PHX to Denver DEN is a short sector of 969 km by great circle, flown nonstop 25.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 969 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 44m.
Phoenix PHX is a major hub in the network held here, 172 scheduled destinations and 603.4 departures a day. Denver DEN has 245 destinations and 1,131.7 departures a day.
Denver runs no time shift at all of Phoenix 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 PHX to DEN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHX to DEN | 25.86 | 181 | American Airlines, Contour Aviation, Denver Air Connection, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines |
| DEN to PHX | 25.57 | 179 | American Airlines, Contour Aviation, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 25.9 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 360 departures a week on PHX to DEN, 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 1h 44m block time on PHX to DEN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to PHX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PHX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PHX to DEN in the air, estimated | 104 min | 6h 14m |
| Formalities at DEN | 90 min | 7h 44m |
| Delivery run in Denver | 45 min | 8h 29m |
| Door to door | 509 min | 8h 29m |
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 PHX to DEN is 8h 29m.
A courier who leaves Phoenix at 09:00 local is on the ground in Denver at about 10:44 local and at the door by 12:59 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Denver, the last useful departure from Phoenix is around 14:01 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. 63 of them join PHX to DEN.
| Connecting at | PHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque ABQ | 10.14 | 10 | 1,091 | 3h 37m |
| El Paso ELP | 7.43 | 5.71 | 1,467 | 3h 59m |
| Salt Lake City SLC | 15.86 | 25 | 1,446 | 4h 13m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 18.14 | 21.86 | 1,420 | 4h 23m |
| San Diego SAN | 21 | 19.71 | 1,860 | 4h 43m |
| Boise BOI | 6.86 | 9.71 | 2,226 | 4h 51m |
With 25.9 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.
63 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Albuquerque ABQ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 10 times a day.
Through ABQ the routing covers 1,091 km against the 969 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 37m 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 53m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, El Paso ELP at 3h 59m and Salt Lake City SLC at 4h 13m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Phoenix to Denver 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 PHX to DEN 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 PHX airport entry
- The DEN airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Phoenix to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through PHX and DEN: Seattle to Denver, Atlanta to Denver, San Francisco to Denver, Boston to Denver, Detroit to Denver, Chicago to Denver, Los Angeles to Denver, San Diego to Denver.