Los Angeles International Airport

Delta is Los Angeles’ #1 carrier

The latest OAG data shows that the California airport has 159,000 departing passenger flights this summer (March 26th-October 28th).

As shown in the following table, Delta is Los Angeles’ number one carrier, and it would also be if the analysis examined seats for sale or available seat kilometers instead. The Embraer 175, shown below, is Delta’s leading type at the airport.

Analysis of OAG schedules data shows Delta’s pole position is because its flights are up by 1.7% versus summer 2019. In contrast, American – number one until the pandemic – is a shadow of its former self, with services -36.6%. United remains more than a quarter smaller than it was (-26.4%).

Delta has one in five Los Angeles flights on a network spanning 45 routes (fewer than America and Delta). They include brand-new Auckland, taking off on October 28th, the last day of the northern summer.

In less than a year and a half, Los Angeles has welcomed multiple new airlines (or soon will). Examples are shown below in month order. The next to begin is Taiwan’s Starlux, whose A350-900s are set to take off to Los Angeles on April 26th.

♦ December 2021: ZIPAIR

♦ April 2022: french bee

♦ May 2022: Air Transat

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June 2022: Breeze, ITA Airways (replaced Alitalia), Volaris El Salvador

♦ August 2022: Norse Atlantic

♦ October 2022: Air Premia

♦ November 2022: Cayman Airlines

♦ February 2023: Lynx Air

♦ April 2023: Starlux