Guatemala City Airport (GUA): terminals, flights

Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora (IATA: GUA, ICAO: MGGT) is a network point for Guatemala City, Guatemala. Our catalogue shows 1 departing routes and 2 arriving, with the airlines, frequencies and lowest peso (MXN) fares listed below.

Airport facts

GUA carries 3 routes and 4 airlines in our catalogue, totalling 30 weekly departures. Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora (ICAO MGGT) serves Guatemala City, Guatemala, in the America/Guatemala zone (UTC−6 in July). Its coordinates (14.5833, -90.5275) are the basis of every distance on this site.

• IATA: GUA
• ICAO: MGGT
• City: Guatemala City
• Country: Guatemala
• Time zone: America/Guatemala
• Coordinates: 14.5833, -90.5275
• Airlines at the airport: 4

Time difference against Mexico City. In July, Guatemala City runs 0 h behind the Mexican capital (UTC−6 versus UTC−6). In January the airport operates on UTC−6, so the gap is not constant across the year: daylight saving shifts it. This is the calculation that decides whether a pre-booked ground connection still works.

Coordinates, and why we publish them. 14.5833, -90.5275 is the position from which every great-circle distance on this site is computed, including the ones that set the EU261 compensation band. It is not the distance the aircraft flies — that follows airways and diversions — but the geodesic measure the regulations use. Publishing it lets anyone recompute the figures on these pages.

Airlines at GUA

4 catalogued airlines operate routes to or from GUA: 2 full-service and 2 low-cost, with checked allowance from 0 to 25 kg. Alliances present: SkyTeam, oneworld. They cover 3 catalogued routes and 30 weekly departures. The table below lists each operator with its type, alliance and checked allowance.

Carriers in our catalogue operating routes to or from this airport, with type, alliance and economy baggage allowance:

How this list is built. These are the airlines appearing in catalogued routes that touch GUA, not the airport’s full directory: a carrier that flies here but not on a pair we cover does not appear. The type — full-service or low-cost — and the allowance come from our own record for each carrier, and where the datum does not exist we say so rather than filling it with a plausible number.

25 kg separate the most generous operator from the leanest at GUA. That gap is what reorders prices once the bag is in: a cheaper base fare on a carrier with no included baggage can land above a full-service one the moment you check a single piece. Compare the total, not the headline figure.

Routes from Guatemala City (GUA)

Our catalogue lists 1 routes from GUA, totalling 12 weekly departures and spanning 1,640 to 1,640 km. The busiest is GUA-MIA at ~12 flights a week; 1 of them carry a cached fare, spread across 1 audience profiles. Every row in this section comes from that same corridor catalogue, not from a live search.

What traffic GUA moves. By audience profile, the routes catalogued here split as: Latin American regional corridor (1). That mix explains the airport’s seasonality: family corridors spike in December and Holy Week, leisure ones follow the holiday calendar, and regional ones stay flatter across the year.

Why some rows have no fare. Of the 1 routes listed, 1 returned a price on the collector’s last pass and the rest show a dash. A dash means the automated query got no result for that pair — not that the route is suspended or expensive. For those pairs the reference price comes from the live search, which queries current inventory.

Frequency is the figure that drives price hardest. In a corridor with many weekly departures the seats compete against each other and the fare floor drops; in a thin one the airline does not need to discount to fill. Comparing two GUA routes on fare without looking at frequency therefore misleads: the dear one is not expensive, it simply has half the supply.

Routes to Guatemala City (GUA)

Our catalogue lists 2 routes into GUA, totalling 18 weekly departures and spanning 815 to 1,056 km. The busiest is MEX-GUA at ~14 flights a week; 1 of them carry a cached fare, spread across 1 audience profiles. Every row in this section comes from that same corridor catalogue, not from a live search.

What traffic GUA moves. By audience profile, the routes catalogued here split as: Latin American regional corridor (2). That mix explains the airport’s seasonality: family corridors spike in December and Holy Week, leisure ones follow the holiday calendar, and regional ones stay flatter across the year.

Why some rows have no fare. Of the 2 routes listed, 1 returned a price on the collector’s last pass and the rest show a dash. A dash means the automated query got no result for that pair — not that the route is suspended or expensive. For those pairs the reference price comes from the live search, which queries current inventory.

Fare seasonality

1 routes at GUA carry a monthly minimum-fare breakdown. Between the cheapest and priciest months observed the gap reaches 12% on the widest route, which shows how much the date matters against the choice of airline at this airport.

Lowest detected fare by month on routes with data, in pesos (MXN). The cheapest versus dearest month helps you time the purchase:

The three peaks of the Mexican calendar. December, Holy Week and summer concentrate family and leisure demand at once, and in those windows price stops responding to normal lead time: cheap buckets sell out earlier and flexible fares go at a premium. Outside them, the usual pattern rewards buying 4 to 8 weeks ahead and travelling midweek. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

What a ‘cheapest month’ means here. It is the minimum the automated query found for that month — not an average and not a guaranteed fare — and it usually corresponds to the least convenient date combination in the month. A month with no row is not an expensive month: it is a month with no data. With that caveat, the month-to-month comparison still holds because every cell was measured the same way.

Connection tips

GUA concentrates 30 catalogued weekly departures across 4 airlines, in the America/Guatemala zone. That density is what decides how much slack to leave on a connection: the more of its own services the airline runs here, the more same-day rebooking options exist.

Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora runs on the America/Guatemala time zone; factor the offset from your origin city when planning connections and transfers. The busiest route at GUA is MEX-GUA (~14 flights a week). The lowest fare detected at this airport is $3,347 MXN on the CUN-GUA route. Book 4–8 weeks ahead for the busiest routes to/from Guatemala City; fares climb in December, Holy Week and summer. Each route guide above shows month-by-month seasonality and the lowest peso fare. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

The cheap connection that loses the checked bag. Two separate tickets are not one itinerary: there is no interline agreement, the bag is not checked through to the final destination, and if the first flight lands late the second airline owes you nothing — it sold a different flight. The apparent saving evaporates the moment you buy a same-day replacement. On a single ticket, rebooking and the bag transfer are the carrier’s problem, not yours.

FAQ

The 9 questions on this record are answered from catalogue figures for GUA: routes and weekly frequencies, minimum fares observed by the collector, checked-baggage allowances and the rights regime that applies on each leg. No answer adds data that is not in those sources.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for Guatemala City airport? The IATA code is GUA and the ICAO code is MGGT. Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora serves Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Which airlines operate at GUA? Airlines on our catalogued routes at GUA: American Airlines, Aeromexico, Volaris, TAR Aerolíneas.

How many routes are there from Guatemala City (GUA)? Our catalogue lists 1 departing routes and 2 arriving at GUA — see the tables above.

What time zone is GUA in? GUA operates in the America/Guatemala time zone.

How many weekly departures does GUA have in this catalogue? Across the catalogued routes touching GUA we count 30 weekly departures over 4 airlines and 3 routes. That is the coverage relevant to Mexican travellers, not the airport’s full directory.

What is the time difference between Guatemala City and Mexico City? In July, Guatemala City runs 0 h behind Mexico City (UTC−6 versus UTC−6). The gap shifts with daylight saving, so recompute it for your exact date before booking transfers.

What is the longest catalogued route at GUA? Catalogued routes at GUA span 815 to 1,640 km great-circle, computed from each airport’s coordinates. That distance drives aircraft type and the applicable compensation band on European sectors.

What is the lowest fare detected at GUA? $3,347 MXN on CUN-GUA, per the collector’s last pass across 2 routes with data at this airport. It is an observed one-way minimum, not a guaranteed price or a bookable offer.

Which airlines are based at GUA? Avianca run GUA as a base. An airline based here keeps aircraft and crews overnight, so it has more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto the same day.

Related

• GUA-MIA flights
• Guatemala airports

Published by FlightsMX Editorial Team. Last verified: May 2026.