The sector is held by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Envoy Air, Frontier Airlines, NetJets Aviation and Nordwind Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PHX Phoenix to SLC Salt Lake City
Phoenix Sky Harbor, the United States, to Salt Lake City International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 15.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 818 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 33m
- Door to door
- 8h 18m
What PHX to SLC looks like
The PHX to SLC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Phoenix PHX to Salt Lake City SLC is a short sector of 818 km by great circle, flown nonstop 15.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 818 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 33m.
Phoenix PHX is a major hub in the network held here, 172 scheduled destinations and 603.4 departures a day. Salt Lake City SLC has 159 destinations and 420.7 departures a day.
Salt Lake City 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 SLC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHX to SLC | 15.86 | 111 | American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Envoy Air, Frontier Airlines, NetJets Aviation, Nordwind Airlines |
| SLC to PHX | 15.43 | 108 | American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Envoy Air, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
7 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 15.9 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 219 departures a week on PHX to SLC, 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 33m block time on PHX to SLC. 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 SLC in the air, estimated | 93 min | 6h 03m |
| Formalities at SLC | 90 min | 7h 33m |
| Delivery run in Salt Lake City | 45 min | 8h 18m |
| Door to door | 498 min | 8h 18m |
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 SLC is 8h 18m.
A courier who leaves Phoenix at 09:00 local is on the ground in Salt Lake City at about 10:33 local and at the door by 12:48 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Salt Lake City, the last useful departure from Phoenix is around 14:12 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. 58 of them join PHX to SLC.
| Connecting at | PHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to SLC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque ABQ | 10.14 | 3.29 | 1,322 | 3h 57m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 18.14 | 11 | 1,003 | 3h 58m |
| Boise BOI | 6.86 | 7 | 1,650 | 4h 12m |
| San Diego SAN | 21 | 12.43 | 1,497 | 4h 15m |
| Oakland OAK | 5.29 | 5.57 | 1,983 | 4h 32m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 23.43 | 11.57 | 1,543 | 4h 35m |
With 15.9 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.
58 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 3.3 times a day.
Through ABQ the routing covers 1,322 km against the 818 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 57m 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 24m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Las Vegas LAS at 3h 58m and Boise BOI at 4h 12m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Phoenix to Salt Lake City 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 SLC 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 SLC airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Phoenix to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through PHX and SLC: 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.