Flights from Los Angeles to Washington, DC

• The shortest flight distance between Los Angeles and Washington is 2288 miles.
• UNITED carried a total of 422,417 passengers from LAX to IAD in 2009.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Los Angeles and Washington from UNITED is the B747-4 built by Boeing with 374 seats.
• 785,134 seats were available on flights from LAX to IAD in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 686,418 passengers flew on all flights from LAX to IAD that year.
• The shortest flight between LAX and IAD takes about 255 minutes.
• The average flight time from Los Angeles, CA to Washington, DC takes about 255 minutes.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from LAX to IAD for UNITED is the A319 built by Airbus Industrie with 120 seats.
• Flight #553, operated by UNITED, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 7 minutes average delay between flights from Los Angeles to Washington.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Los Angeles, CA to Washington, DC in 2009 was American Airlines' B757-2 from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• UNITED operated flights from LAX to IAD using 6 types of aircraft in 2009.
• In 2009, there were 7 airline companies operating between Los Angeles and Washington.
• The newest aircraft servicing LAX to IAD in 2009 was Northwest Airlines' A330-3 from Airbus Industrie. The A330-3 started flying in 2004.
• There were 686,418 passengers that flew from Los Angeles to Washington in 2009.
• UNITED offers the shortest flight times from Los Angeles to Washington.
• UNITED, American Airlines operate the shortest flights from Los Angeles to Washington.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Los Angeles to Washington in 2009 was 87.3%.
• UNITED, American Airlines, Virgin America, Northwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, Frontier, Delta Airlines offer flights from Los Angeles, CA to Washington, DC.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)