Seattle to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: Alaska, Delta, SkyWest, Frontier and United fly direct from Seattle (SEA) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 23 times a day, year-round.
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Seattle to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 954 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 30 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 August 2026 (162 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (127 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 141 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 137 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 139 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 140 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 127 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 138 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 141 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 142 flights a week
- May 2026: 153 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 151 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 150 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 162 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Alaska 42%, Delta 28%, SkyWest 22% (regional operator), Frontier 4%, United 4% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 14,497 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $250 one way, median $150. 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 $100 to $225, 17,980 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 15,442 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 11,690 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 14,497 tickets
Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Jul to Sep, Oct to Dec and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $150), 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 Seattle nonstop.
Other airports near Seattle with nonstops to Los Angeles
Within about 100 miles of Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Also nonstop from Seattle (SEA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Anchorage (ANC) about 22 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 21 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 21 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 19 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 18 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 16 times a day
- San Diego (SAN) about 15 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 15 times a day
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