Best airline from Los Angeles to Baltimore

Most punctual on this route

A
United Airlines

90.72% on time across 575 flights · 0.35% cancelled

That is 10.9 points clear of Southwest Airlines, the next best on this route at 79.84%.

Every airline on LAX to BWI, ranked

# Airline Flights On time Cancelled Grade
1 United Airlines 575 90.72% 0.35% A
2 Southwest Airlines 1,038 79.84% 0.77% C
3 Spirit Airlines 109 75% 0.92% C

Why this is worth checking per route

An airline's overall punctuality is an average across everywhere it flies, and averages hide the thing you are booking. A carrier can be middling nationally and the best option on this particular pair of airports — because of which slots it holds, what time of day it schedules, and which aircraft feeds the flight.

On LAX to BWI the spread between best and worst is 15.7 points. Both carriers fly the same corridor, into the same weather and the same air traffic control — so a gap that size is a fact about the airlines, not the route.

Punctuality is one dimension of a good airline and not the one most people would name first. It is, though, the only one measured the same way for everybody and published by someone with no stake in the answer. Full LAX to BWI record → · Best time of year to fly it →