The sector is held by Air Canada, American Airlines, Flair Airlines, United Airlines, WestJet and NetJets Aviation.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAX Los Angeles to YVR Vancouver
Los Angeles International, the United States, to Vancouver International, Canada. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 9.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,741 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 43m
- Door to door
- 9h 28m
What LAX to YVR looks like
The LAX to YVR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Los Angeles LAX to Vancouver YVR is a medium haul sector of 1,741 km by great circle, flown nonstop 9.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,741 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 43m.
Los Angeles LAX is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 826.3 departures a day. Vancouver YVR has 125 destinations and 409.9 departures a day.
Vancouver runs one hour ahead of Los Angeles in January and no time shift at all in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 YVR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to YVR | 9.43 | 66 | Air Canada, American Airlines, Flair Airlines, United Airlines, WestJet |
| YVR to LAX | 9.57 | 67 | Air Canada, American Airlines, Flair Airlines, NetJets Aviation, United Airlines, WestJet |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 9.4 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 133 departures a week on LAX to YVR, 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 43m block time on LAX to YVR. 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 YVR in the air, estimated | 163 min | 7h 13m |
| Formalities at YVR | 90 min | 8h 43m |
| Delivery run in Vancouver | 45 min | 9h 28m |
| Door to door | 568 min | 9h 28m |
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 YVR is 9h 28m.
A courier who leaves Los Angeles at 09:00 local is on the ground in Vancouver at about 12:43 local and at the door by 14:58 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Vancouver, the last useful departure from Los Angeles is around 12:02 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. 66 of them join LAX to YVR.
| Connecting at | LAX to hub, flights a day | Hub to YVR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle SEA | 26.29 | 19.71 | 1,742 | 4h 31m |
| Portland PDX | 14.14 | 5.86 | 1,746 | 4h 34m |
| San Francisco SFO | 44 | 10.43 | 1,832 | 4h 42m |
| San Diego SAN | 8.86 | 3.86 | 2,073 | 4h 56m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 27.71 | 3.43 | 1,977 | 5h 06m |
| Salt Lake City SLC | 11.57 | 3.43 | 2,231 | 5h 06m |
With 9.4 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.
66 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seattle SEA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 19.7 times a day.
Through SEA the routing covers 1,742 km against the 1,741 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 31m 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 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Portland PDX at 4h 34m and San Francisco SFO at 4h 42m 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 Vancouver, Victoria YYJ is 63 km away by great circle and carries 22 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Los Angeles to Vancouver 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 YVR 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.
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