Los Angeles Airport (LAX): terminals, flights

Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX) is a primary hub for Los Angeles, USA. Our catalogue shows 0 departing routes and 9 arriving, with the airlines, frequencies and lowest peso (MXN) fares listed below.

Airport facts

LAX carries 9 routes and 6 airlines in our catalogue, totalling 194 weekly departures. Los Angeles International Airport (ICAO KLAX) serves Los Angeles, the United States, in the America/Los_Angeles zone (UTC−7 in July). Its coordinates (33.942496, -118.408049) are the basis of every distance on this site.

• IATA: LAX
• ICAO: KLAX
• City: Los Angeles
• Country: USA
• Time zone: America/Los_Angeles
• Coordinates: 33.942496, -118.408049
• Airlines at the airport: 6

Time difference against Mexico City. In July, Los Angeles runs 1 h behind the Mexican capital (UTC−7 versus UTC−6). In January the airport operates on UTC−8, so the gap is not constant across the year: daylight saving shifts it. This is the calculation that decides whether a pre-booked ground connection still works.

What each code is for. The IATA code (LAX) is what the bag tag and the ticket use; the ICAO code (KLAX) is what flight plans, NOTAMs and flight trackers use. To follow the inbound aircraft that will become your flight, ICAO is the one that returns reliable results. And if LAX is not printed on your bag tag, the bag was not checked through to here — worth catching at the counter.

Airlines at LAX

6 catalogued airlines operate routes to or from LAX: 3 full-service and 3 low-cost, with checked allowance from 0 to 25 kg. Alliances present: SkyTeam, oneworld. They cover 9 catalogued routes and 194 weekly departures. The table below lists each operator with its type, alliance and checked allowance.

Carriers in our catalogue operating routes to or from this airport, with type, alliance and economy baggage allowance:

What US DOT does not cover. The United States has no federal delay compensation: the Department of Transportation regulates refunds — your money back when the airline cancels or significantly changes the flight and you decline the alternative — but it does not require a payout for the hours you lost, the way EU261 does. The single federal exception is involuntary denied boarding from oversales, priced under 14 CFR Part 250; that is a different mechanism from delay and is not triggered by a late departure.

Routes to Los Angeles (LAX)

Our catalogue lists 9 routes into LAX, totalling 194 weekly departures and spanning 205 to 3,407 km. The busiest is MEX-LAX at ~55 flights a week; 3 of them carry a cached fare, spread across 1 audience profiles. Every row in this section comes from that same corridor catalogue, not from a live search.

What traffic LAX moves. By audience profile, the routes catalogued here split as: Mexico-US paisano corridor (9). That mix explains the airport’s seasonality: family corridors spike in December and Holy Week, leisure ones follow the holiday calendar, and regional ones stay flatter across the year.

Fare seasonality

2 routes at LAX carry a monthly minimum-fare breakdown. Between the cheapest and priciest months observed the gap reaches 24% on the widest route, which shows how much the date matters against the choice of airline at this airport.

Lowest detected fare by month on routes with data, in pesos (MXN). The cheapest versus dearest month helps you time the purchase:

The three peaks of the Mexican calendar. December, Holy Week and summer concentrate family and leisure demand at once, and in those windows price stops responding to normal lead time: cheap buckets sell out earlier and flexible fares go at a premium. Outside them, the usual pattern rewards buying 4 to 8 weeks ahead and travelling midweek. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

What a ‘cheapest month’ means here. It is the minimum the automated query found for that month — not an average and not a guaranteed fare — and it usually corresponds to the least convenient date combination in the month. A month with no row is not an expensive month: it is a month with no data. With that caveat, the month-to-month comparison still holds because every cell was measured the same way.

Connection tips

LAX concentrates 194 catalogued weekly departures across 6 airlines, in the America/Los_Angeles zone. That density is what decides how much slack to leave on a connection: the more of its own services the airline runs here, the more same-day rebooking options exist.

Los Angeles International Airport runs on the America/Los_Angeles time zone; factor the offset from your origin city when planning connections and transfers. The busiest route at LAX is MEX-LAX (~55 flights a week). The lowest fare detected at this airport is $4,083 MXN on the MLM-LAX route. Book 4–8 weeks ahead for the busiest routes to/from Los Angeles; fares climb in December, Holy Week and summer. Each route guide above shows month-by-month seasonality and the lowest peso fare. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

The cheap connection that loses the checked bag. Two separate tickets are not one itinerary: there is no interline agreement, the bag is not checked through to the final destination, and if the first flight lands late the second airline owes you nothing — it sold a different flight. The apparent saving evaporates the moment you buy a same-day replacement. On a single ticket, rebooking and the bag transfer are the carrier’s problem, not yours.

A US layover needs a visa too. The United States has no visa-free international transit: with a Mexican passport you need a B1/B2 or C-1 visa merely to change planes in Houston, Dallas, Miami or Atlanta, even without leaving the terminal. Every US connection forces you through immigration, bag reclaim, customs and re-check. A US-routed itinerary that looks cheaper can therefore be unusable if your visa has expired or is still in process.

Other airports in USA

12 further the United States airports appear in our catalogue besides LAX, with 41 routes between them. The best-connected is Dallas (DFW) with 10 routes, and the nearest sits ~176 km great-circle from LAX. The 12 distances in this section are measured from each airport’s own coordinates.

Other airports in the same country in our catalogue, with the number of catalogued routes — useful if you need an alternative gateway:

Great-circle distance is not the transfer. The figures in the table are geodesic, computed from each airport’s coordinates; the real journey depends on whether road, rail or a domestic flight exists, and on what they cost. An airport 300 km away can be more accessible than one at 120 km if the first has a direct motorway and the second does not. Use them to rule out, not to plan.

FAQ

The 9 questions on this record are answered from catalogue figures for LAX: routes and weekly frequencies, minimum fares observed by the collector, checked-baggage allowances and the rights regime that applies on each leg. No answer adds data that is not in those sources.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for Los Angeles airport? The IATA code is LAX and the ICAO code is KLAX. Los Angeles International Airport serves Los Angeles, USA.

Which airlines operate at LAX? Airlines on our catalogued routes at LAX: Aeromexico, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Volaris, VivaAerobus, Southwest Airlines.

How many routes are there from Los Angeles (LAX)? Our catalogue lists 0 departing routes and 9 arriving at LAX — see the tables above.

What time zone is LAX in? LAX operates in the America/Los_Angeles time zone.

How many weekly departures does LAX have in this catalogue? Across the catalogued routes touching LAX we count 194 weekly departures over 6 airlines and 9 routes. That is the coverage relevant to Mexican travellers, not the airport’s full directory.

What is the time difference between Los Angeles and Mexico City? In July, Los Angeles runs 1 h behind Mexico City (UTC−7 versus UTC−6). The gap shifts with daylight saving, so recompute it for your exact date before booking transfers.

What is the longest catalogued route at LAX? Catalogued routes at LAX span 205 to 3,407 km great-circle, computed from each airport’s coordinates. That distance drives aircraft type and the applicable compensation band on European sectors.

What is the lowest fare detected at LAX? $4,083 MXN on MLM-LAX, per the collector’s last pass across 3 routes with data at this airport. It is an observed one-way minimum, not a guaranteed price or a bookable offer.

Which airlines are based at LAX? American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines run LAX as a base. An airline based here keeps aircraft and crews overnight, so it has more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto the same day.

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Published by FlightsMX Editorial Team. Last verified: May 2026.