The sector is held by American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PVR Puerto Vallarta to PHX Phoenix
Licenciado Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Mexico, to Phoenix Sky Harbor, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,567 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 30m
- Door to door
- 9h 15m
What PVR to PHX looks like
The PVR to PHX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Puerto Vallarta PVR to Phoenix PHX is a medium haul sector of 1,567 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,567 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 30m.
Puerto Vallarta PVR is a smaller airport in the network held here, 35 scheduled destinations and 41.7 departures a day. Phoenix PHX has 172 destinations and 603.4 departures a day.
Phoenix carries about 14.5 times the departures of Puerto Vallarta, 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 is one hour behind of Puerto Vallarta all year.
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 PVR to PHX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PVR to PHX | 2.57 | 18 | American Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
| PHX to PVR | 2.14 | 15 | 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 33 departures a week on PVR to PHX, 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 2h 30m block time on PVR to PHX. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to PVR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PVR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PVR to PHX in the air, estimated | 150 min | 7h 00m |
| Formalities at PHX | 90 min | 8h 30m |
| Delivery run in Phoenix | 45 min | 9h 15m |
| Door to door | 555 min | 9h 15m |
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 PVR to PHX is 9h 15m.
A courier who leaves Puerto Vallarta at 09:00 local is on the ground in Phoenix at about 10:30 local and at the door by 12:45 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Phoenix, the last useful departure from Puerto Vallarta is around 14:15 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. 19 of them join PVR to PHX.
| Connecting at | PVR to hub, flights a day | Hub to PHX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalajara GDL | 3.43 | 2.57 | 1,876 | 4h 26m |
| Monterrey MTY | 3.43 | 0.86 | 2,203 | 4h 58m |
| Mexico City MEX | 8.71 | 2.29 | 2,677 | 5h 48m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 2.29 | 23.29 | 2,556 | 5h 52m |
| Houston HOU | 1.14 | 5.86 | 3,052 | 6h 09m |
| Houston IAH | 1.14 | 7.57 | 3,056 | 6h 09m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at PVR in the afternoon actually flies on.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Guadalajara GDL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through GDL the routing covers 1,876 km against the 1,567 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 26m 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 56m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Monterrey MTY at 4h 58m and Mexico City MEX at 5h 48m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara GDL is 203 km away by great circle and carries 67 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Puerto Vallarta to Phoenix 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 PVR to PHX 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 PVR airport entry
- The PHX airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Phoenix to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through PVR and PHX: 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.