Tucson to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: SkyWest and Southwest fly direct from Tucson (TUS) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 7 times a day, year-round.
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Tucson to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 451 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 25 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 50 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 46 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 48 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 50 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 51 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 46 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 49 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 52 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 53 flights a week
- May 2026: 53 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 52 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 49 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 51 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest 81% (regional operator), Southwest 19% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,889 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 and $275 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 $150 one way, middle half $125 to $250, 1,705 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 2,481 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 1,831 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 1,889 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Oct to Dec, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun 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 Tucson nonstop.
Also nonstop from Tucson (TUS)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Phoenix (PHX) about 9 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 5 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 5 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 3 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 3 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 3 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 3 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 2 times a day
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