Route · SEA → LAX
Flights from Seattle to Los Angeles
Seattle to Los Angeles is one of the busiest domestic corridors on the US West Coast, covering roughly 1,536 km with a typical block time just over two hours, making it a natural shuttle route for both business travelers and connecting passengers. Alaska Airlines dominates with high-frequency service and operates the route primarily on Boeing 737 variants, while American, Delta, and United all maintain competitive schedules; Virgin America historically bolstered capacity before its absorption into Alaska. At LAX, arriving terminals vary by carrier, so confirming your terminal before booking a connection or rideshare is genuinely worthwhile given the airport's notoriously slow inter-terminal ground transfers. Both cities share the Pacific time zone, eliminating any adjustment on arrival. Fares tend to soften in January and early February after the holiday peak, and midweek departures on Tuesdays and Wednesdays often yield meaningfully lower prices than Friday or Sunday travel.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Seattle (SEA) → Los Angeles (LAX). Use the year… view to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
7 carriersThe 7 carriers we currently track on the Seattle–Los Angeles route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full profile,… baggage rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from Seattle to Los Angeles
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Seattle to Los Angeles — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival times… your booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at SEA and… LAX, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.