Houston to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: United, Delta, SkyWest, Frontier and Spirit fly direct from Houston (IAH) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 12 times a day, year-round.
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Houston to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,379 miles nonstop, about 3 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: busiest in October 2025 (111 flights a week), quietest in August 2026 (83 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 103 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 111 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 103 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 101 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 97 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 100 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 100 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 102 flights a week
- May 2026: 95 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 92 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 93 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 68%, Delta 14%, SkyWest 8% (regional operator), Frontier 7%, Spirit 4% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 11,271 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $250 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 $150 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 11,130 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 11,705 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 9,158 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 11,271 tickets
Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $175), 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 Houston nonstop.
Other airports near Houston with nonstops to Los Angeles
Within about 100 miles of George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Also nonstop from Houston (IAH)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 15 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 13 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 13 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 11 times a day
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 9 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 9 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 9 times a day
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