Denver to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: United, Southwest, SkyWest, Frontier and Delta fly direct from Denver (DEN) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 21 times a day, year-round.
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Denver to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 862 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 20 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, a steady 147 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 151 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 155 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 147 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 146 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 136 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 137 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 142 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 147 flights a week
- May 2026: 155 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 152 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 150 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 147 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 40%, Southwest 23%, SkyWest 19% (regional operator), Frontier 10%, Delta 8% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 11,193 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $200 one way, median $125. 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 $125 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 12,662 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $225, 12,689 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $225, 9,272 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $200, 11,193 tickets
Jul to Sep, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $150), in the DOT ticket survey for 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 Denver nonstop.
Also nonstop from Denver (DEN)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Phoenix (PHX) about 23 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 21 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 21 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 18 times a day
- San Diego (SAN) about 17 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 17 times a day
- Minneapolis (MSP) about 17 times a day
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