Route · YVR → LAX
Flights from Vancouver to Los Angeles
The Vancouver–Los Angeles corridor is one of the busiest transborder routes in the Pacific Northwest, covering roughly 1,741 km and clocking in at around two and a half hours block time — short enough to be a comfortable day-trip but long enough to justify a real seat. Six carriers compete here: Air Canada and WestJet anchor the Canadian side, while Alaska Airlines, American, Delta, and United add dense US-side frequency; most operate narrowbodies, typically the Boeing 737 family or Airbus A320 series, with Air Canada occasionally rostering a wider A321. A practical note worth flagging: YVR handles US pre-clearance on Canadian soil, so arriving passengers land into a domestic terminal at LAX rather than the international arrivals hall, which meaningfully cuts ground time. Fare-wise, shoulder seasons — late January through March and again in October — typically offer the softest pricing, while Friday and Sunday evening departures tend to run pricier against leisure demand.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Vancouver (YVR) → 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
6 carriersThe 6 carriers we currently track on the Vancouver–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 Vancouver to Los Angeles
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Vancouver 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 YVR 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.