Los Angeles to Washington nonstop
Yes: American, Delta and Alaska fly direct from Los Angeles (LAX) to Washington (DCA) about 4 times a day, year-round.
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Los Angeles to Washington in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,311 miles nonstop, about 5 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 28 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 28 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 28 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 27 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 28 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 26 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 28 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 28 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 28 flights a week
- May 2026: 27 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 28 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 26 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 28 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 50%, Delta 25%, Alaska 25% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 4,411 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $425 one way, median $275. 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 $300 one way, middle half $225 to $425, 4,626 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $300 one way, middle half $200 to $425, 4,772 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $425, 4,055 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $425, 4,411 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $275 to $300 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? Washington to Los Angeles nonstop.
Also nonstop from Los Angeles (LAX)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- San Francisco (SFO) about 36 times a day
- New York (JFK) about 28 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 24 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 23 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 23 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 21 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 20 times a day
- Sacramento (SMF) about 17 times a day
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