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Los Angeles (LAX) departure delays

16,664 departures · 87 routes · February 2025 – July 2026

75.17%

Left on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.61%

Cancelled

Share of departures

64 min

When late, late by

Average delayed departure

#52

Rank

Among graded US airports

What the record says about LAX

Departures from Los Angeles run late more often than average — enough that a tight connection at the far end deserves a second look.

The airlines flying from here are not equally affected. Virgin Atlantic left on time 27.5 points more often than Southwest Airlines from the same airport — which is the clearest evidence available that a delayed departure is not purely the airport's fault.

With 40 routes in the record, LAX is a hub, and hubs carry a particular risk: a delay early in the day propagates through every aircraft that was due to fly on afterwards. Morning departures from a hub are reliably better than evening ones.

Which airlines run best out of LAX

Airline	Departures	On time
Virgin Atlantic	1,352	86.1%
SkyWest Airlines	3,461	85.6%
United Airlines	3,188	82.5%
British Airways	1,562	80.4%
Delta Air Lines	3,335	80.3%
JetBlue Airways	666	79.4%
Frontier Airlines	490	75.2%
Alaska Airlines	1,040	74.9%
American Airlines	3,826	73.2%
Southwest Airlines	2,275	58.6%

Routes out of LAX

LAX → LHR London 4,304 flights · 81.44% on time B LAX → SFO San Francisco 1,079 flights · 46.79% on time F LAX → JFK New York 821 flights · 76.24% on time C LAX → ORD Chicago 659 flights · 73.63% on time C LAX → DEN Denver 654 flights · 78.28% on time B LAX → SEA Seattle 651 flights · 78.67% on time B LAX → LAS Las Vegas 625 flights · 69.73% on time D LAX → PHX Phoenix 604 flights · 78.11% on time B LAX → HNL Honolulu 561 flights · 75.76% on time C LAX → DFW Dallas/Fort Worth 522 flights · 67.41% on time D LAX → SMF Sacramento 521 flights · 82.5% on time B LAX → BOS Boston 453 flights · 81.25% on time B LAX → ATL Atlanta 433 flights · 84.58% on time B LAX → IAH Houston 395 flights · 83.59% on time B LAX → SJC San Jose 395 flights · 78.97% on time C LAX → EWR Newark 381 flights · 83.06% on time B LAX → AUS Austin 359 flights · 72.63% on time C LAX → PDX Portland 358 flights · 83.9% on time B LAX → SLC Salt Lake City 326 flights · 84.97% on time A LAX → MCO Orlando 296 flights · 72.6% on time C LAX → MIA Miami 269 flights · 81.72% on time B LAX → IAD Washington 253 flights · 90.44% on time A LAX → OGG Kahului 249 flights · 81.53% on time B LAX → PHL Philadelphia 234 flights · 80.35% on time C LAX → BNA Nashville 232 flights · 79.13% on time B LAX → TUS Tucson 223 flights · 73.87% on time C LAX → RNO Reno 215 flights · 88.84% on time A LAX → CLT Charlotte 209 flights · 85.1% on time A LAX → SAN San Diego 209 flights · 88.04% on time A LAX → MSP Minneapolis 198 flights · 85.2% on time — LAX → ABQ Albuquerque 193 flights · 85.49% on time — LAX → FLL Fort Lauderdale 173 flights · 84.88% on time — LAX → LIH Lihue 173 flights · 84.97% on time — LAX → DTW Detroit 171 flights · 81.18% on time — LAX → OAK Oakland 163 flights · 65.64% on time — LAX → KOA Kona 159 flights · 84.71% on time — LAX → MCI Kansas City 151 flights · 74.17% on time — LAX → SAT San Antonio 146 flights · 79.17% on time — LAX → DAL Dallas 141 flights · 51.08% on time — LAX → BWI Baltimore 138 flights · 78.1% on time —