Boston to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: JetBlue, American, Delta and United fly direct from Boston (BOS) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 15 times a day, year-round.
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Boston to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,611 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 55 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in July 2026 (106 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (80 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 85 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 90 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 86 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 85 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 80 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 80 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 88 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 84 flights a week
- May 2026: 90 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 105 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 106 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 105 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- JetBlue 35%, American 26%, Delta 24%, United 16% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 13,839 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $175 and $400 one way, median $250. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $375, 14,854 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $425, 14,620 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $350, 10,023 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 13,839 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $225 to $250 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Los Angeles to Boston nonstop.
Other airports near Boston with nonstops to Los Angeles
Within about 100 miles of Boston Logan International Airport
Also nonstop from Boston (BOS)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 25 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 23 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 20 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 16 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 15 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 14 times a day
- New York (JFK) about 13 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 12 times a day
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