The sector is held by Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SEA Seattle to GDL Guadalajara
Seattle Tacoma 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
- 3,448 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 39m
- Door to door
- 11h 24m
What SEA to GDL looks like
The SEA to GDL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Seattle SEA to Guadalajara GDL is a medium haul sector of 3,448 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,448 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 39m.
Seattle SEA is a large airport in the network held here, 145 scheduled destinations and 717.9 departures a day. Guadalajara GDL has 67 destinations and 162.3 departures a day.
Seattle carries about 4.4 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 2 hours ahead of Seattle 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 SEA to GDL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEA to GDL | 1.43 | 10 | Volaris |
| GDL to SEA | 1.43 | 10 | Volaris |
One carrier holds the sector, Volaris, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 20 departures a week on SEA 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 4h 39m block time on SEA 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 SEA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SEA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SEA to GDL in the air, estimated | 279 min | 9h 09m |
| Formalities at GDL | 90 min | 10h 39m |
| Delivery run in Guadalajara | 45 min | 11h 24m |
| Door to door | 684 min | 11h 24m |
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 SEA to GDL is 11h 24m.
A courier who leaves Seattle at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guadalajara at about 15:39 local and at the door by 17:54 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guadalajara, the last useful departure from Seattle is around 09:06 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. 25 of them join SEA to GDL.
| Connecting at | SEA to hub, flights a day | Hub to GDL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland PDX | 23 | 1.14 | 3,505 | 6h 31m |
| Phoenix PHX | 20.43 | 2.71 | 3,455 | 6h 40m |
| Salt Lake City SLC | 12.86 | 1.57 | 3,505 | 6h 44m |
| Oakland OAK | 8.57 | 2.86 | 3,723 | 6h 45m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 0.86 | 3.43 | 3,648 | 6h 48m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 17.43 | 3.14 | 3,473 | 6h 56m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at SEA in the afternoon actually flies on.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Portland PDX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through PDX the routing covers 3,505 km against the 3,448 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 31m 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 52m 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 6h 40m and Salt Lake City SLC at 6h 44m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Seattle, Victoria YYJ is 157 km away by great circle and carries 22 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through SEA or GDL. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Boeing, Everett and RentonWidebody and 737 final assembly. A European supplier base and an American line, eight time zones apart. Logistics through Seattle SEA.
Plan Seattle 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 SEA 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 SEA airport entry
- The GDL airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Dubai to Seattle
- The written lane, Seattle to Nagoya
- The written lane, Madrid to Guadalajara
- The route calculator
More pairs through SEA and GDL: Los Angeles to Guadalajara, Tijuana to Guadalajara, Guadalajara to Monterrey, Mexico City to Guadalajara, Atlanta to Guadalajara, Houston to Guadalajara, Chicago to Guadalajara, Mexico City to Guadalajara.