Detroit to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: Delta and Spirit fly direct from Detroit (DTW) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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Detroit to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,979 miles nonstop, about 4 hr 35 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 September 2025 (53 flights a week), quietest in August 2026 (34 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 53 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 53 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 43 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 47 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 45 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 45 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 47 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 48 flights a week
- May 2026: 41 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 40 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 41 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 34 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Delta 88%, Spirit 12% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 6,117 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $375 one way, median $225. 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 $225 one way, middle half $100 to $375, 7,661 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $275 one way, middle half $150 to $425, 6,425 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $100 to $425, 4,772 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $375, 6,117 tickets
Jul to Sep and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $225 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $275), 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 Detroit nonstop.
Other airports near Detroit with nonstops to Los Angeles
Within about 100 miles of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Also nonstop from Detroit (DTW)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 13 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 10 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 9 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 9 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 9 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 8 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 8 times a day
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