Flights from Chicago to Los Angeles

• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from ORD to LAX for Skywest Air is the RJ-700 built by Canadair with 66 seats.
• 1,154,520 seats were available on flights from ORD to LAX in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 1,016,339 passengers flew on all flights from ORD to LAX that year.
• UNITED operated flights from ORD to LAX using 6 types of aircraft in 2009.
• UNITED, American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Delta Airlines offer flights from Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA.
• American Airlines offers the shortest flight times from Chicago to Los Angeles.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA in 2009 was American Airlines' B767-3/R from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Chicago and Los Angeles from UNITED is the B747-4 built by Boeing with 365 seats.
• American Airlines, UNITED operate the shortest flights from Chicago to Los Angeles.
• The average flight time from Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA takes about 230 minutes.
• UNITED carried a total of 560,720 passengers from ORD to LAX in 2009.
• In 2009, there were 4 airline companies operating between Chicago and Los Angeles.
• The newest aircraft servicing ORD to LAX in 2009 was American Airlines' B737-8 from Boeing. The B737-8 started flying in 1998.
• The shortest flight between ORD and LAX takes about 230 minutes.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Chicago to Los Angeles in 2009 was 84.42%.
• Flight #111, operated by UNITED, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 87 minutes average delay between flights from Chicago to Los Angeles.
• The shortest flight distance between Chicago and Los Angeles is 1745 miles.
• There were 1,016,339 passengers that flew from Chicago to Los Angeles in 2009.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)