Memphis to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: Delta flies direct from Memphis (MEM) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 5 times a week, year-round.
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Memphis to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,619 miles nonstop, about 3 hr 50 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 December 2025 (5 flights a week), quietest in November 2025 (4 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 5 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 5 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 4 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 5 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 5 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 4 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 5 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 5 flights a week
- May 2026: 5 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 5 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 5 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 5 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Delta is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 770 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $350 one way, median $175. 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 $175 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 756 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $400, 753 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $350, 565 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $75 to $350, 770 tickets
Jul to Sep, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $175 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $250), 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 Memphis nonstop.
Also nonstop from Memphis (MEM)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 9 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 8 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 7 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 5 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 4 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 4 times a day
- Detroit (DTW) about 3 times a day
- Minneapolis (MSP) about 3 times a day
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