The sector is held by Aeromexico and Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SLC Salt Lake City to GDL Guadalajara
Salt Lake City International, the United States, to Miguel Hidalgo Guadalajara, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,398 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 34m
- Door to door
- 10h 19m
What SLC to GDL looks like
The SLC to GDL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Salt Lake City SLC to Guadalajara GDL is a medium haul sector of 2,398 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,398 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 34m.
Salt Lake City SLC is a major hub in the network held here, 159 scheduled destinations and 420.7 departures a day. Guadalajara GDL has 67 destinations and 162.3 departures a day.
Salt Lake City carries about 2.6 times the departures of Guadalajara, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Guadalajara runs one hour ahead of Salt Lake City in January and no time shift at all 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 SLC to GDL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLC to GDL | 1.57 | 11 | Aeromexico, Volaris |
| GDL to SLC | 1.14 | 8 | Aeromexico, Volaris |
Two carriers hold the sector, Aeromexico and Volaris, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: SLC to GDL runs about once a day, the return runs about once a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 19 departures a week on SLC to GDL, 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 34m block time on SLC to GDL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SLC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SLC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SLC to GDL in the air, estimated | 214 min | 8h 04m |
| Formalities at GDL | 90 min | 9h 34m |
| Delivery run in Guadalajara | 45 min | 10h 19m |
| Door to door | 619 min | 10h 19m |
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 SLC to GDL is 10h 19m.
A courier who leaves Salt Lake City at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guadalajara at about 13:34 local and at the door by 15:49 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guadalajara, the last useful departure from Salt Lake City is around 11:11 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. 27 of them join SLC to GDL.
| Connecting at | SLC to hub, flights a day | Hub to GDL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 0.86 | 3.43 | 2,528 | 5h 16m |
| Phoenix PHX | 15.43 | 2.71 | 2,491 | 5h 26m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 1 | 3.43 | 2,695 | 5h 35m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 11.29 | 3.14 | 2,670 | 6h 01m |
| Denver DEN | 25 | 1.29 | 2,782 | 6h 10m |
| Mexico City MEX | 1.14 | 23 | 3,131 | 6h 21m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at SLC in the afternoon actually flies on.
27 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Puerto Vallarta PVR, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through PVR the routing covers 2,528 km against the 2,398 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 16m 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 42m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Phoenix PHX at 5h 26m and Los Cabos SJD at 5h 35m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Guadalajara, Leon and Silao BJX is 197 km away by great circle and carries 21 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Salt Lake City to Guadalajara 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 SLC to GDL 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 SLC airport entry
- The GDL airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Madrid to Guadalajara
- The written lane, Shanghai to Guadalajara
- The route calculator
More pairs through SLC and GDL: Los Angeles to Guadalajara, Tijuana to Guadalajara, Guadalajara to Monterrey, Mexico City to Guadalajara, Seattle to Guadalajara, Atlanta to Guadalajara, Houston to Guadalajara, Chicago to Guadalajara.