The sector is held by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAX Los Angeles to DEN Denver
Los Angeles International, the United States, to Denver International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 23.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,385 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 16m
- Door to door
- 9h 01m
What LAX to DEN looks like
The LAX to DEN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Los Angeles LAX to Denver DEN is a medium haul sector of 1,385 km by great circle, flown nonstop 23.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,385 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 16m.
Los Angeles LAX is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 826.3 departures a day. Denver DEN has 245 destinations and 1,131.7 departures a day.
Denver is one hour ahead of Los Angeles all year.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on LAX to DEN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to DEN | 23.57 | 165 | American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines |
| DEN to LAX | 23.14 | 162 | American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 23.6 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 327 departures a week on LAX to DEN, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 16m block time on LAX to DEN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LAX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LAX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LAX to DEN in the air, estimated | 136 min | 6h 46m |
| Formalities at DEN | 90 min | 8h 16m |
| Delivery run in Denver | 45 min | 9h 01m |
| Door to door | 541 min | 9h 01m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for LAX to DEN is 9h 01m.
A courier who leaves Los Angeles at 09:00 local is on the ground in Denver at about 12:16 local and at the door by 14:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Denver, the last useful departure from Los Angeles is around 12:29 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 72 of them join LAX to DEN.
| Connecting at | LAX to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque ABQ | 7.29 | 10 | 1,650 | 4h 13m |
| San Diego SAN | 8.86 | 19.71 | 1,547 | 4h 16m |
| Phoenix PHX | 23.29 | 25.86 | 1,563 | 4h 21m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 27.71 | 21.86 | 1,389 | 4h 21m |
| Salt Lake City SLC | 11.57 | 25 | 1,577 | 4h 23m |
| El Paso ELP | 4 | 5.71 | 2,057 | 4h 38m |
With 23.6 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
72 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Albuquerque ABQ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 7.3 times a day.
Through ABQ the routing covers 1,650 km against the 1,385 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 13m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 57m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, San Diego SAN at 4h 16m and Phoenix PHX at 4h 21m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Los Angeles, San Diego SAN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 123 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Los Angeles to Denver yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for LAX to DEN in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The LAX airport entry
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- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Dubai to Los Angeles
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- The written lane, Los Angeles to Taipei
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More pairs through LAX and DEN: Seattle to Denver, Atlanta to Denver, San Francisco to Denver, Boston to Denver, Detroit to Denver, Chicago to Denver, Phoenix to Denver, San Diego to Denver.