LAX Los Angeles

How deep the LAX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LAX. This reads the same 212 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 104of the 212 destinations are flown by one airline
• 77destinations run less than once a day
• 62destinations have four or more departures a day
• 28.3%of the destinations name United Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LAX

117 airlines appear on the LAX board and they do not hold it evenly. United Airlines is on 60 of the 212 destinations, 28.3 per cent of them, and on 9 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 498.4 of the 826.3 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Delta Air Lines on 57 destinations. 62 of the 117 airlines at LAX appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at LAX: one airline on 28.3 per cent of the destinations and the other 71.7 per cent spread across 116 airlines. A cancellation inside the United Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 152 destinations United Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the LAX board is daily

Of the 212 destinations, 135 are flown at least once a day and 77 are not, 29 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LAX board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: LAX to Wuxi (WUX) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 159.2 of the 826.3 departures a day, 19.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 207 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at LAX usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bedford BED	the United States	Sun Country Airlines	1	4,169	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	Singapore Airlines	1	9,053	the pair page
Coeur d'Alene COE	the United States	Advanced Air	1	1,544	plan this
Denver BJC	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,353	plan this
Fairfield SUU	the United States	Atlas Air	1	575	plan this
Fort Worth FTW	the United States	SVL	1	1,955	plan this
Harrisburg MDT	the United States	Qatar Executive	1	3,725	plan this
Hartford BDL	the United States	American Airlines	1	4,057	plan this
Hayward HWD	the United States	Jet Linx Aviation	1	532	plan this
Helena HLN	the United States	American Airlines	1	1,509	plan this

The ten destinations out of LAX where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 52 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from LAX

The desk holds the return direction for 114 of the 212 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On ten of them the return into LAX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Shenzhen (SZX) at 0.71 out a day against 0.14 back, São Paulo (GRU) at 0.71 out a day against 0.32 back and Georgetown (GCM) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: Anchorage (ANC) files 4.7 a day back into LAX against 1.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LAX

LAX keeps America/Los_Angeles time, eleven hours behind Dubai in summer and twelve hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 22:00 at LAX, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at LAX

10 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from LAX that lands inside it leaves around 04:27, on a modelled block of 11h 03m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from LAX that lands inside it leaves around 03:32, on a modelled block of 11h 28m. Into Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LAX that lands inside it leaves around 19:57, on a modelled block of 11h 03m. Those three departure times out of LAX are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where LAX turns up on the rest of this site

LAX carries two other pages on this site as well: the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the LAX transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at LAX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Los Angeles to San Francisco (SFO), Los Angeles to New York (JFK) and Los Angeles to Las Vegas (LAS).

Five of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Sydney and Los Angeles to Taipei. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at LAX written out.

22 courier postings name LAX as the airport a courier here flies from: Long Beach, Bakersfield and Anaheim.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LAX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 212 destinations above.