The sector is held by Air Canada and WestJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PHX Phoenix to YVR Vancouver
Phoenix Sky Harbor, the United States, to Vancouver International, Canada. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,980 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 02m
- Door to door
- 9h 47m
What PHX to YVR looks like
The PHX to YVR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Phoenix PHX to Vancouver YVR is a medium haul sector of 1,980 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,980 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 02m.
Phoenix PHX is a major hub in the network held here, 172 scheduled destinations and 603.4 departures a day. Vancouver YVR has 125 destinations and 409.9 departures a day.
Phoenix and Vancouver 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 YVR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHX to YVR | 1.86 | 13 | Air Canada, WestJet |
| YVR to PHX | 1.71 | 12 | Air Canada, WestJet |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air Canada and WestJet, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 25 departures a week on PHX to YVR, 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 02m block time on PHX to YVR. 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 YVR in the air, estimated | 182 min | 7h 32m |
| Formalities at YVR | 90 min | 9h 02m |
| Delivery run in Vancouver | 45 min | 9h 47m |
| Door to door | 587 min | 9h 47m |
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 YVR is 9h 47m.
A courier who leaves Phoenix at 09:00 local is on the ground in Vancouver at about 12:02 local and at the door by 14:17 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Vancouver, the last useful departure from Phoenix is around 12:43 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. 41 of them join PHX to YVR.
| Connecting at | PHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to YVR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle SEA | 20.86 | 19.71 | 1,987 | 4h 50m |
| Portland PDX | 10.86 | 5.86 | 2,028 | 4h 56m |
| Salt Lake City SLC | 15.86 | 3.43 | 2,100 | 4h 56m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 18.14 | 3.43 | 2,008 | 5h 08m |
| San Francisco SFO | 13.86 | 10.43 | 2,335 | 5h 14m |
| San Diego SAN | 21 | 3.86 | 2,386 | 5h 23m |
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.
41 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seattle SEA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 19.7 times a day.
Through SEA the routing covers 1,987 km against the 1,980 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 50m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Portland PDX at 4h 56m and Salt Lake City SLC at 4h 56m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Vancouver, Victoria YYJ is 63 km away by great circle and carries 22 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Phoenix to Vancouver 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 YVR 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 YVR airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Canada
- The written lane, Phoenix to Taipei
- The written lane, Dubai to Vancouver
- The written lane, Hong Kong to Vancouver
- The route calculator
More pairs through PHX and YVR: 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.