The sector is held by American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PHX Phoenix to SJD Los Cabos
Phoenix Sky Harbor, the United States, to Los Cabos International, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,165 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 59m
- Door to door
- 8h 44m
What PHX to SJD looks like
The PHX to SJD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Phoenix PHX to Los Cabos SJD is a short sector of 1,165 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,165 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 59m.
Phoenix PHX is a major hub in the network held here, 172 scheduled destinations and 603.4 departures a day. Los Cabos SJD has 38 destinations and 51.4 departures a day.
Phoenix carries about 11.7 times the departures of Los Cabos, 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 and Los Cabos 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 PHX to SJD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHX to SJD | 2.86 | 20 | American Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
| SJD to PHX | 3 | 21 | American Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 41 departures a week on PHX to SJD, 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 59m block time on PHX to SJD. 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 SJD in the air, estimated | 119 min | 6h 29m |
| Formalities at SJD | 90 min | 7h 59m |
| Delivery run in Los Cabos | 45 min | 8h 44m |
| Door to door | 524 min | 8h 44m |
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 SJD is 8h 44m.
A courier who leaves Phoenix at 09:00 local is on the ground in Los Cabos at about 10:59 local and at the door by 13:14 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Los Cabos, the last useful departure from Phoenix is around 13:46 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 PHX to SJD.
| Connecting at | PHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to SJD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego SAN | 21 | 1 | 1,782 | 4h 37m |
| Monterrey MTY | 0.86 | 1.57 | 2,446 | 5h 08m |
| Guadalajara GDL | 2.71 | 3.43 | 2,396 | 5h 12m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 23.43 | 4.14 | 2,062 | 5h 14m |
| Salt Lake City SLC | 15.86 | 1 | 2,790 | 5h 49m |
| San Francisco SFO | 13.86 | 2.57 | 3,057 | 6h 09m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at PHX 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 San Diego SAN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SAN the routing covers 1,782 km against the 1,165 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 37m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 38m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Monterrey MTY at 5h 08m and Guadalajara GDL at 5h 12m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Phoenix to Los Cabos 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 SJD 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 SJD airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Phoenix to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through PHX and SJD: Phoenix to Seattle, Phoenix to San Francisco, Atlanta to Phoenix, Los Angeles to Phoenix, Phoenix to Chicago, London to Phoenix, Phoenix to Detroit, Phoenix to Boston.