Flights Bellingham → Los Angeles
BLI → LAX
Route overview
The flight route connects Bellingham, whose airport opened in 1940, with Los Angeles, where the much older airport was established in 1926. The destination city's airport sees a high volume of traffic annually, serving approximately 76,587,980 passengers each year.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Bellingham (BLI) → Los Angeles (LAX) route is operated by Allegiant Air. Across 8 flights monitored in recent months, 88% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of -3 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 7.6/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Los Angeles the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Bellingham the average ATFM delay is 0.8 minutes.
Heading to Los Angeles: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Bellingham (BLI) to Los Angeles (LAX) heads south for about 1,686 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 32m.
Departures from Bellingham on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 75% of BLI-LAX flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Bellingham the average ATFM delay is 0.8 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Los Angeles it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 8 tracked BLI-LAX flights, 88% left on time with an average delay of -3 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegiant Air (G4) | 78% | 11 min | 2.3% |
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Frequently asked questions about BLI-LAX
On the Bellingham (BLI) -> Los Angeles (LAX) route, on-time performance is 88% with an average delay of -3 minutes, based on 8 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Bellingham-Los Angeles is 0.00% across 8 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Allegiant Air.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
