Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
LAX
Airport information
Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles, United StatesIATA: LAXICAO: KLAX
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Departures
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
Live radar
Live radar around the airport
View current aircraft positions around this airport and find a flight directly on the map.
The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
4 runways · Longest runway: 12,894 ft
- 7L/25R12,894 ft · heading 83/263 degrees
- 7R/25Lin use now11,095 ft · heading 83/263 degrees
- 6R/24L10,859 ft · heading 83/263 degrees
- 6L/24R8,926 ft · heading 83/263 degrees
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
Practical
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Transport by metro and bus; parking at the airport; picking someone up or dropping them off.
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Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
SFOUnited States
San Francisco
- Distance
- 337 mi
- Estimated duration
- 55m
- Airlines
Alaska Airlines · American Airlines · +6
Alaska Airlines · American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Frontier Airlines · Horizon Air · SkyWest Airlines · Southwest Airlines · United Airlines
LASUnited States
Las Vegas
- Distance
- 236 mi
- Estimated duration
- 44m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · +7
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Frontier Airlines · Horizon Air · JSX · SkyWest Airlines · Southwest Airlines · Spirit Airlines · United Airlines
JFKUnited States
New York
- Distance
- 2,469 mi
- Estimated duration
- 4h 47m
- Airlines
Air China Cargo · Alaska Airlines · +10
Air China Cargo · Alaska Airlines · American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Dubai Air Wing · Frontier Airlines · JetBlue · Kalitta Air · National Airlines · Qantas · Qatar Executive · Silk Way West Airlines
PHXUnited States
Phoenix
- Distance
- 370 mi
- Estimated duration
- 59m
- Airlines
ABX Air · American Airlines · +6
ABX Air · American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Frontier Airlines · Kalitta Charters II · SkyWest Airlines · Southwest Airlines · United Airlines
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- HawthorneJack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal AirportHHR4 mi16 destinations
- Long BeachLong Beach International AirportLGB17 mi31 destinations
- BurbankHollywood Burbank/Bob Hope AirportBUR18 mi53 destinations
- Santa AnaJohn Wayne Orange County International AirportSNA36 mi81 destinations
- OntarioOntario International AirportONT47 mi63 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Los Angeles International Airport
- City and country
- Los Angeles, United States
- IATA / ICAO
- LAX / KLAX
- Time zone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Terminal
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, B
- Category
- International hub
Terminals: © OpenStreetMap contributors
Los Angeles Airport (LAX) Flight Status
Averaging 164.3 aircraft observations per day in our own 30-day reception measurement, Los Angeles Airport, formally Los Angeles International Airport (IATA LAX, ICAO KLAX), ranks at the very top of our data. The large airport serves Los Angeles, United States, and sits at 33.9425 north, 118.408 west. LAX is the code you see on tickets and booking confirmations; KLAX is the code used in aviation datasets, including ours. The live radar on this page shows the aircraft arriving at and departing from LAX right now, and the arrivals and departures pages linked above it list each flight with its time and status; the sections below add our measured traffic picture, the airlines we recorded most often, and nearby alternatives in the Los Angeles area.
Our 30-day measurement at LAX Airport
The busiest window in our 30-day measurement at LAX fell between 00:00 and 02:00. Our measurement clock runs in UTC, so that window reflects universal time, not local Los Angeles time; convert it before you plan around it. That two-hour window marks when we recorded the most aircraft near LAX within the 30 days. The daily average in the opening comes from the same 30-day reception measurement and is the figure that places LAX at the top end of everything we measure. Both numbers are our own measurement, offered as background to the live radar rather than as a schedule.
Airlines we record most often at LAX
Three carriers stand out clearly in our LAX data. American Airlines leads with 819 observations in 30 days; the airline page is American Airlines flight status. Delta Air Lines follows with 542 observations in the same period; see the Delta flight status page. Southwest Airlines completes the top three with 394 observations; its page is Southwest flight status. Those three are the carriers in our data for Los Angeles, listed in the order we recorded them.
Their status pages sit alongside the rest of our United States coverage, which starts from the airport overview.
Nearby airports in the Los Angeles area
LAX is not the only airfield in the region. Two alternatives with their own pages on this site are Long Beach International Airport, 28 km from LAX, and Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport, 29 km away. Both distances come from our database, and the two sit almost equally far from LAX, so which one fits depends on your part of the Los Angeles area rather than on the distance.
For any flight arriving at or departing from Los Angeles International Airport, the arrivals and departures pages linked above the radar on this page show the current status, while our 30-day measurement above tells you how busy the airport runs in our data and which carriers we recorded most often.