The sector is held by China Airlines, Jet Linx Aviation and Qatar Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAX Los Angeles to KIX Osaka
Los Angeles International, the United States, to Kansai International, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 9,221 km
- Block, estimated
- 11h 36m
- Door to door
- 18h 21m
What LAX to KIX looks like
The LAX to KIX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Los Angeles LAX to Osaka KIX is an ultra long sector of 9,221 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 9,221 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 11h 36m.
Los Angeles LAX is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 826.3 departures a day. Osaka KIX has 70 destinations and 267.1 departures a day.
Los Angeles carries about 3.1 times the departures of Osaka, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Osaka runs 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles in January and 16 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between the Americas and Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 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 KIX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to KIX | 1.43 | 10 | China Airlines, Jet Linx Aviation, Qatar Airways |
| KIX to LAX | 1.14 | 8 | none held |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 18 departures a week on LAX to KIX, 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 11h 36m block time on LAX to KIX. 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 KIX in the air, estimated | 696 min | 16h 06m |
| Formalities at KIX | 90 min | 17h 36m |
| Delivery run in Osaka | 45 min | 18h 21m |
| Door to door | 1,101 min | 18h 21m |
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 KIX is 18h 21m.
A courier who leaves Los Angeles at 09:00 local is on the ground in Osaka at about 13:36 local and at the door by 15:51 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Osaka, nothing leaving Los Angeles inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 18h 21m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 26 of them join LAX to KIX.
| Connecting at | LAX to hub, flights a day | Hub to KIX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo HND | 7.14 | 2 | 9,244 | 13h 30m |
| Tokyo NRT | 5.86 | 5.71 | 9,245 | 13h 31m |
| San Francisco SFO | 44 | 1 | 9,235 | 13h 31m |
| Vancouver YVR | 9.43 | 0.71 | 9,675 | 14h 01m |
| Honolulu HNL | 18.14 | 2.14 | 10,722 | 14h 55m |
| Seoul ICN | 11.29 | 41.29 | 10,485 | 14h 57m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LAX in the afternoon actually flies on.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tokyo HND, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through HND the routing covers 9,244 km against the 9,221 km nonstop track and takes about 13h 30m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 54m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tokyo NRT at 13h 31m and San Francisco SFO at 13h 31m 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Osaka, Osaka ITM is 44 km away by great circle and carries 26 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Los Angeles to Osaka 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 KIX 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
- The KIX airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Japan
- The written lane, Dubai to Los Angeles
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Sydney
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through LAX and KIX: Osaka to Seoul, Osaka to Taipei, Osaka to Hong Kong, Osaka to Shanghai, Singapore to Osaka, Osaka to Tokyo, Bangkok to Osaka, San Francisco to Osaka.