The sector is held by LOT - Polish Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAX Los Angeles to WAW Warsaw
Los Angeles International, the United States, to Warsaw Chopin, Poland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 9,658 km
- Block, estimated
- 12h 08m
- Door to door
- 18h 53m
What LAX to WAW looks like
The LAX to WAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Los Angeles LAX to Warsaw WAW is an ultra long sector of 9,658 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 9,658 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 12h 08m.
Los Angeles LAX is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 826.3 departures a day. Warsaw WAW has 165 destinations and 327.5 departures a day.
Los Angeles carries about 2.5 times the departures of Warsaw, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Warsaw is 9 hours ahead of Los Angeles all year.
The pair sits between the Americas and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 36 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 WAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to WAW | 1.14 | 8 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
| WAW to LAX | 1.14 | 8 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, LOT - Polish Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on LAX to WAW, 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 12h 08m block time on LAX to WAW. 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 WAW in the air, estimated | 728 min | 16h 38m |
| Formalities at WAW | 90 min | 18h 08m |
| Delivery run in Warsaw | 45 min | 18h 53m |
| Door to door | 1,133 min | 18h 53m |
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 WAW is 18h 53m.
A courier who leaves Los Angeles at 09:00 local is on the ground in Warsaw at about 06:08 local and at the door by 08:23 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Warsaw, 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 53m 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. 30 of them join LAX to WAW.
| Connecting at | LAX to hub, flights a day | Hub to WAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copenhagen CPH | 1.29 | 7.43 | 9,694 | 14h 06m |
| Helsinki HEL | 0.57 | 4.29 | 9,952 | 14h 18m |
| San Francisco SFO | 44 | 0.71 | 9,961 | 14h 24m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 2.43 | 9 | 10,057 | 14h 41m |
| Toronto YYZ | 6.57 | 3 | 10,429 | 14h 49m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 3.43 | 7.71 | 10,219 | 14h 53m |
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.
30 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Copenhagen CPH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through CPH the routing covers 9,694 km against the 9,658 km nonstop track and takes about 14h 06m 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 58m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Helsinki HEL at 14h 18m and San Francisco SFO at 14h 24m 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 Warsaw, Krakow KRK is 246 km away by great circle and carries 135 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Los Angeles to Warsaw 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 WAW 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 WAW airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Poland
- 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 WAW: Los Angeles to San Francisco, Seattle to Los Angeles, London to Los Angeles, Atlanta to Los Angeles, Boston to Los Angeles, Paris to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Seoul, Chicago to Los Angeles.