Newark to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: United, JetBlue, Alaska and Spirit fly direct from Newark (EWR) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 12 times a day, year-round.
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Newark to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,454 miles nonstop, about 5 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 October 2025 (108 flights a week), quietest in February 2026 (69 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 108 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 108 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 107 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 106 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 71 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 69 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 81 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 82 flights a week
- May 2026: 77 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 89 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 87 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 83 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 79%, JetBlue 9%, Alaska 9%, Spirit 4% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 18,321 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $175 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 $250 one way, middle half $175 to $350, 21,161 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $275 one way, middle half $175 to $450, 20,642 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 13,189 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $375, 18,321 tickets
Jan to Mar 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 Newark nonstop.
Other airports near Newark with nonstops to Los Angeles
Within about 100 miles of Newark Liberty International Airport
Also nonstop from Newark (EWR)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 17 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 16 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 12 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 11 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 10 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 10 times a day
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 9 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 9 times a day
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